Sunak considers postponing British budget 

UK finance minister Rishi Sunak is considering postponing the country's budget to better gauge the financial impact of Covid.

Rishi Sunak is considering pushing the UK budget into next year so the country’s treasury department can weigh up the economic impact of ending the country’s furlough scheme and the third wave of the pandemic over the coming months.

The UK chancellor is planning to tell British MPs before next week’s parliamentary recess that he will hold a three-year spending review in the autumn but he is thinking about delaying tax measures until the spring, government sources have confirmed.