Johnsonism wins budget battle but will Sunakism win the war?

Analysis: chancellor left with little choice but to go PM's way, though one passage of his speech was telling

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Rishi Sunak may see himself as a future prime minister but this budget confirmed he is very much Boris Johnson's chancellor.

Rumours about ructions between the pair have gripped Westminster for months. Sunak, who told last year's Tory conference his party had a moral duty to fix the public finances, was known to be queasy about the government's national insurance increase, for example.