Ahead of his speech, Mr Healey insisted his budget would deliver “breathing space” for households and businesses across the country.Speaking yesterday, the Chancellor said his announcement of £100 off energy bills for about 20 million households in England was an “important payment”.He added: “Now, you can’t remove all the rises, you can’t remove all the pressures that people are facing.”But my aim is to say, look where we can, we’ll act, we’ll give people a bit of breathing space and [we’re] doing that with this household energy payment.”