The price of Osborne's failure is being paid by the most vulnerable | John McDonnell

Huge cuts in payments to disabled people sit alongside a major tax giveaway to the super-rich. At the heart of this budget is unfairness

George Osborne delivered a budget built on failure. He failed on closing the government deficit. He has failed on reducing the government debt. His politically precious but economically nonsensical target for a budget surplus at the end of this parliament is remaining intact only as a result of creative accounting, shuffling around billions in corporation tax revenues.

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