Our Mid Sussex MP has attached her flag firmly to this governments misguided budget plans giving unfunded tax cuts to millionaires effectively loading the cost on to future taxpayers. As a direct result the pound has crashed and interest rates are destined to soar, with £500 billion wiped off UK assets following the “delight” of our local MP.

We are already suffering the consequences with many of us worried about the cost of living, mortgages and our pensions. My fear that public services would bear the consequences appears to be well founded with government departments today ordered to find “efficiency savings” at a time when inflation has already caused big gaps in budgets. Now we hear benefits may not rise in line with inflation, what next, pension uplifts cancelled? Unlike Mims Davies I am definitely not delighted by the budget.