Budget 2014: Pleas and predictions

As the Chancellor puts the finishing touches to the Budget, the PP team looks at what the industry would like to happen

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Today Chancellor George Osborne will deliver his fourth Budget to the Commons. In previous years there have been wild rumours around Westminster about the statement, but Budget 2014 seems a little less frenzied.

As Fidelity personal investing director Tom Stevenson puts it: "Osborne's challenge at this stage in the electoral cycle is to bank votes at the lowest possible cost to the Exchequer." Neverthel...

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