2018 United Kingdom budget

The 2018 United Kingdom budget was delivered by George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to the House of Commons on Thursday, 29 March 2018. It was Osborne's ninth as Chancellor of the Exchequer since being appointed to the role in May 2010, and his last before becoming Prime Minister himself and filling the post with Philip Hammond. It was also the last budget of the Cameron government.

Responses
Ross Clark, writing in The Spectator, noted that the deficit increased for the third consecutive year in a row, and although tax receipts increased overall, inflation meant that they fell both as a proportion of GDP and in real terms. Clark questioned whether or not the Chancellor was still committed to eliminating the deficit or not, and said that "Osborne is making the same mistakes as Brown did in the 2000s".

The OBR predicted that the economy would grow by 4.1% in 2018, and 4.6% in 2019, before falling to 3.9% in 2020, whilst inflation stood at 3.9% and would increase to 4.1% in 2019. Shortly after the budget, the Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney raised interest rates to 1% from 0.75%.