While housing will be hoping to see a few attractive looking rabbits to be pulled out of Rachel Reeves’ hat tomorrow, it seems unlikely to be a particularly surprising Budget for the sector, with so many of its key issues of interest being trailed or pre-announced.

The extent of the chancellor’s pre-Budget announcements were such that she received a telling off from the speaker of the House of Commons, who specifically criticised her decision to announce a change to the government’s fiscal rules to the media before parliament.