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Rachel Reeves has little to celebrate. Borrowing is up, inflation remains high and after a sugar rush at the start of the ...
Rachel Reeves is facing pressure to provide a “clearer, more stable tax environment,” when she delivers her growth strategy in July. The Chancellor is once again in the spotlight after a ...
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 ...
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 — ...
If Starmer and Reeves don’t make the case, a right-dominated press will blame the inevitable tax rises on Labour economic mismanagement. There is another story to tell.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves told cabinet ministers that tax increases in the Labour government’s fall budget ...
FFT Chartered Accountants say government rhetoric on growth is at odds with tax policies that penalise entrepreneurs through ...
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 ...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has warned ministers that taxes will have to rise after the government U-turned on its welfare bill, ...
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 ...