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The Chancellor promises a big spending increase, if MPs vote to leave the European Union with a deal.
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The BBC's coverage of the Chancellor's Spring Statement focuses on one issue: Brexit. It's difficult not to see the promise of a 'deal dividend' as anything other than a 'bribe' to MPs, not that it did much good.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the Statement was the reclassification of student loans, which has made it harder to hit the current fiscal target of limiting seasonally-adjusted borrowing to less than 2% of GDP.
That said, I suspect that the government, and Parliament more generally, have bigger fish to fry.