Budget 2021: The verdict

After weeks of waiting, Rishi Sunak finally delivered the government’s much-anticipated Budget.

As the country begins to face up to the economic fallout of coronavirus, did the chancellor keep his promises to protect jobs and ‘level’ with the public on the economic task ahead?

Eamonn Ives (Centre for Policy Studies), Shreya Nanda (Institute for Public Policy Research) and Simon Jeffrey (Centre for Cities) share their thoughts.