Rachel Reeves has ordered a review of the Treasury’s media operation and a campaign to educate Labour MPs on the harsh fiscal reality facing Britain, as the chancellor prepares for a painful Autumn ...

Be careful what you wish for. Few chancellors are ever popular, either within their own party or among voters. Theirs is the ...

POLITICO grilled economists, wonks and strategists on the grim choices facing the country’s top finance minister after a ...

Starmer and Reeves are back from the brink – here’s what they must do next. After a spending review that came as a relief to many Labour backbenchers, the government must now start making the ...

Rachel Reeves has refused to rule out fresh tax rises after admitting the government’s U-turn on its flagship welfare reforms ...

Kemi Badenoch, sitting on the bench opposite, had noted Reeves’s unhappiness — a rare example of the Tory leader being up with the curve rather than lagging several space-time continuums behind it — ...

FFT Chartered Accountants say government rhetoric on growth is at odds with tax policies that penalise entrepreneurs through ...

Labour is “willing to explore” bringing in a new wealth tax, Lord Kinnock has suggested. The party’s former leader said a 2 per cent tax on assets worth more than £10 million could help raise about ...

Meanwhile, new modelling suggests 150,000 people may be pushed into poverty by 2030 as a result of the revised plans.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has warned ministers that taxes will have to rise after the government U-turned on its welfare bill, ...

Ms Reeves’ plan involved ending the current exemption for farmland from inheritance tax under a policy called Agricultural Property Relief. APR will now be limited to a value of £1 million ...