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Budget on March 24th – 8 in the morning, March 10th

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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

* Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling will settle on the date of the budget today – thought to be March 24th.

* In a major speech on the economy this morning, the PM will say the UK is now “weathering the storm” of economic downturn, but that now is “no time to turn back”.

* The old party politics is not fit for the hour, the Guardian leader says.

* As the YouGov Tracking poll shows the Tory lead down to 4 points, the Independent asks: Have Ashcroft’s millions fatally wounded the Tories?

* Alan Johnson has said Tory crime figures are “concocted”.

* Lord Paul is to be investigated by House of Lords authorities over expenses claims.

* Sarah Bryant, the first British woman solider killed in Afghanistan, was “inadequately trained and lacked equipment”, a coroner finds, delivering a verdict of unlawful killing.

* British Airways and Network Rail staff could both strike over Easter.

Alex is the founder and CEO of The Cares Family. He was editor and first director of LabourList in 2009-2010, during which time he established the site as the number one Labour blog, and later an aide to Ed Miliband.

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