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The Times warns “businesses and families” will pay for the chancellor’s pandemic spending as it reports on a budget that brings the highest level of tax since the 1960s.

The Times alleges royal aides have hit back at the Duchess of Sussex before her television interview with Oprah Winfrey by revealing that she faced a bullying complaint made by one of her closest advisers during her time at Kensington Palace. Meghan has denied the claims.

Summer holidays could yet be on after the EU promised UK citizens would have access to a vaccination passport scheme, The Times says.

Home Secretary Priti Patel threatens to jail people smugglers for life, according to The Times.

The Times says tens of thousands of young people will get their first step on the housing ladder under a new mortgage guarantee scheme due to be announced in the Budget next week.

A tax “raid” on wealthy pensioners is imminent, according to The Times.It says the lifetime pension allowance will be frozen at £1m in the Budget, meaning more people may have to pay “punitive tax charges”.

Schools could see widespread grade inflation this year as teachers will be allowed to reward results following last year’s exams fiasco, according to The Times. 

The stamp duty holiday will be extended for three months until June under new plans being drawn up by Chancellor Rishi Sunak to keep the property market going, according to The Times. 

Most of England’s economy is set to be reopened by May as part of Boris Johnson’s “one-way road to freedom”, writes The Times. You can read more on this story here. 

On Monday, Boris Johnson is set to outline the four tests of when and if parts of the economy can restart as lockdown eases, according to The Times. Sky News has taken a look at how these tests might be passed.