October 31: The OBR passed its final pre-measures forecast to the Treasury, by which point the public finances had improved ...

The chancellor is under pressure after Treasury forecasters revealed public finances showed a £4.2bn surplus, while Rachel ...

Rachel Reeves has vowed to be Chancellor in two years time as she urged Labour MPs to rally around her ahead of this week’s ...

Labour MPs Helen Hayes and Debbie Abrahams, who chair the education and work and pensions committees respectively, said it ...

Reeves and Starmer swerved the alternative of a righteous public execution: breaking the letter of their pledge by openly ...

Thus, he and Rachel Reeves yielded hostage after hostage to fortune, and they are now paying the ransom. There was the ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers her second Budget today, Wednesday November 26, 2025, with major changes expected ...

Labour’s new deputy leader Lucy Powell has warned Rachel Reeves not to break her manifesto pledges and raise taxes, saying voters have to be able to “trust” the government. After both the chancellor ...

Rachel Reeves has decided against raising income tax rates at the Budget after receiving better-than-expected economic forecasts, government sources have said. In recent weeks, the chancellor had ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ second Budget, delivered earlier today after its contents were mistakenly released prematurely by the Office for Budget Responsibility, contained several measures that will ...

What made this a distinctive Labour budget is that taxes have increased to raise welfare benefits by £10 billion, notably ...

Rachel Reeves is considering bolder and more progressive tax changes at her upcoming UK budget than some investors and Labour lawmakers are expecting, as she seeks to head off criticisms that she is ...