Budget day is the Live desk’s Super Bowl: hours of coverage, dozens of moving parts, and a nation watching to find out what changed in the price of daily life.
This year’s reading brought headline moves on digital services tax, road funding and education — each tracked by our correspondents in real time as the speech unfolded.
The live blog format proved its worth again: verified figures published within seconds, clearly separated from analysis and reaction, corrected in the open when the fine print said otherwise.
By evening, the desk had published more than eighty updates, three explainers and a running tally of what the budget means for households, traders and employers.
“Our live desk tracked every announcement from the reading to the reaction — here is how the day…”
Missed it live? The full timeline remains on this page — the most complete public record of how the day actually unfolded.
