Summer budget 2015: what to expect from George Osborne

Clues from past budgets and manifesto pledges can help us gauge the likely changes, be they welfare benefit cuts, changes in tax and pension allowances, bank levies or fuel duty George Osborne will soon deliver the first budget by a Conservative government in almost 20 years. His March budget, under the coalition with the Liberal Democrats, provided some clues as to what he might say when he unveils his measures on Wednesday afternoon. The Conservative manifesto also contained a wide range of pr...