What can we expect from the 2021 budget?

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Rishi Sunak is due to release his second budget on March 3rd. Arriving in the face of coronavirus, Brexit, and the UK’s deepest economic collapse in three centuries, it will be a difficult task. What is this young chancellor's plan to balance the numbers, protect the NHS, and “secure the recovery”? The Independent's economics editor Ben Chu explains what we can expect from Mr Sunak's 2021 budget.