Chancellor accepts Labour has put a ‘lot of pressure’ on business and says helping entrepreneurs will be a budget priority – UK politics live

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John Healey is expected to cut red tape requirements, particularly for smaller businesses At this stage of the budget process, John Healey has almost certainly made all his key decisions.

But, just in case he hasn’t, he could try our budget interactive.

It allows you to make a decision on some of the options facing the chancellor, and then it will tell you what the impact would be on budget headroom, and how the markets and the polls might react.

Good morning.

A week today John Healey , the chancellor, will be doing a media round defending the budget he is presenting on Wednesday next week.

Ahead of that, he has given an interview to Patrick Maguire from the Times.

As you would expect, there is no real detail in it about the measures he will be presenting to MPs.

But the big picture message is very clear – and qu