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Podcast - Banks, cuts and politics: a roundtable discussion

Three FT experts give their views on Alistair Darling’s pre-Budget report. With Chris Giles, Nick Timmins and Patrick Jenkins

UK Daily View - Personal finance

Matthew Vincent, FT personal finance editor, looks at how individuals’ finances will be affected by the measures outlined in the pre-Budget report

UK Daily View: an economic analysis

Chris Giles on the economics of the pre-Budget report and the questions left unanswered over the state of the UK’s finances

Lex: Bonus windfall tax

Alistair Darling is preparing to crackdown on ‘extraordinarily high’ bankers’ bonuses when he delivers his pre-Budget report on Wednesday. Jo Johnson analyses the measures being mooted by the government and considers how they may be implemented

Interactive: Benefits and the UK’s budget deficit

Interactive graphic: UK benefits – what they are and what impact cutting them may have on reducing the public debt burden

Pre-Budget preview: Tax policies

Chris Sanger, head of tax policy at Ernst & Young and a former advisor to Gordon Brown, talks to Daniel Garrahan about the tax policies Alastair Darling needs to adopt to make the UK a country fit for business and also what to expect in the pre-Budget report.

UK Daily View: Darling gets growth forecasts wrong

Alistair Darling is set to admit in December’s pre-Budget report that the recession has been much deeper than he forecast in the Budget earlier this year. Chris Giles, economics editor, talks to Daniel Garrahan about when we can expect to see the UK economy return to growth and what he expects to be unveiled at the PBR