BBC News | BUDGET 2001 | Brown takes centre stage

The UK Chancellor, Gordon Brown, has delivered his fifth Budget - almost certainly the last before a General Election. Click below for the best of the BBC's coverage.

Chancellor Gordon Brown: "Rewarding work and helping families"

Speaking to the BBC's Today programme the day after the Budget, Gordon Brown says he will not follow a policy of "irresponsible pre-election tax cuts", as the Tories pledge to match spending in his Budget giveaway.

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The Houses of Parliament in Westminster

Budget highlights

Mr Brown says the economy has, under Labour, reached a "hard-won stability" which will be a foundation for building prosperity for all. The BBC's John Pienaar reports.

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SNP leader John Swinney
Scotland and Wales react

Leader of the SNP John Swinney and the President of Plaid Cymru Ieuan Wyn Jones give their reactions to the budget.

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Gambling at a racecourse
Betting duty scrapped

The law in which the government collects a betting duty of 6.75% from bookmakers and is passed on to betting shop punters as a 9% tax is scrapped. The BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones reports.

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Baby Leo Blair
The Prime Minister's family stand to benefit from the budget too.
A budget for the family

Working parents Roger and Rachel Thomas from Bristol, who have a young son and new born baby girl, assess how the budget will affect their lives.

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