Business | Business News Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has fuelled general election speculation and the prospects of tax cuts to woo voters by announcing a March 6 budget. The Chancellor has commissioned the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to prepare an economic and fiscal forecast to be presented to Parliament alongside the spring budget, described by the Liberal Democrats as a “last throw of the dice”. The Conservatives have been dropping hints they could make attention-grabbing pledges on housing and taxes as Rishi Sunak tries to turn around his party’s major deficit in the polls and create policy dividing lines with Labour. The…
