Is Healey really a risk taker?

Can the chancellor deliver growth without breaking his own self-imposed fiscal rules?

John Healey will set out his vision for the economy this morning, but with pressure mounting on the public finances, Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy ask whether he is preparing to flex the rules to make it happen.

Amidst an increasingly turbulent economic backdrop, the duo examine the warning lights beginning to flash – from the rising cost of borrowing to the instability of mortgage rates – and what it could mean for households and the government’s room for manoeuvre

Plus, as the AfD romp to victory in the German state election, Anne gives her take on where it all goes next.