What's happening

Public sector workers go on strike

All day Unison general secretary Dave Prentis tours London's picket lines

TBC Andrew Lansley speaks at the NHS Alliance annual conference

9.00 George Osborne attends the Ecofin meeting of European finance ministers in Brussels

10.00 Alastair Campbell appears in front of the Leveson inquiry

12.00 Prime minister's questions

12.30 Institue for Fiscal Studies researchers present their analysis of Chancellor's autumn statement

16.00 David Miles, Monetary Policy Committee member, makes a speech at a seminar at the Department of Land Economy

18.00 The Work Foundation holds an autumn statement debrief

18.00 Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna, Independent columnist John Rentoul, Demos director Kitty Ussher and journalist Rowenna Davis attend the launch of the Labour's Business pamphlet

What's been said

Daniel Finkelstein in The Times (£) deconstructs the autumn statement and predicts how voters will feel the difference

Steve Richards in The Independent compares Osborne's statement to Denis Healey's 1970s emergency budgets

Polly Toynbee in The Guardian sets out how Osborne's measures impact the poor more than the rich

Benedict Brogan in the Daily Telegraph is full of praise for Osborne's performance, which he says 'inspired confidence'