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LIVE: Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers the 2024 Budget statement

BUS passengers will fork out up to 50 per cent more for journeys as plans to scrap the £2 fare cap were confirmed in the Budget.

The Chancellor used her Budget to say fares will jump to a new £3 limit, hitting people in the pocket just beforesaid: "While the previous government’s policy was for the bus fare cap to end this December, we understand how important bus services are for our communities.Drinks giant urges Rachel Reeves to slash alcohol tax or put 9,000 pubs at riskRACHEL Reeves will be grilled in a special Budget edition of The Sun’s Never Mind The Ballots show today.

“I do know how much this matters, particularly in rural communities where there’s heavy reliance on buses.that in the Budget we will announce there will be a £3 cap on busfares to the end of 2025 because I know how important it is.”Department for TransportAnd Lib Dems branded the change “a bus tax” and described bus services as “the backbone of economic activity in communities across our country”.

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