What will be in the chancellor’s budget and spending review?

Analysis: measures will affect the NHS, public sector pay, business rates, climate, levelling up and the cost of living

Rishi Sunak will use the budget and spending review on Wednesday to set out the government's priorities up to the next election, while attempting to move on from crisis-management mode more than a year and a half into the Covid-19 pandemic.

The chancellor is expected to benefit from an improved economic outlook after a faster-than-expected recovery from the winter lockdown, although he must balance a desire to end emergency support with pressures from an unfolding cost-of-living crisis before a difficult winter.