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Exclusive: Conservation charity hit by employer national insurance and minimum wage bill aims to save £26mThe National Trust is to cut at least 550 jobs in efforts to save £26m after changes made in Rachel Reeves’s debut budget pushed up labour costs.T…
Depressing data comes as Rachel Reeves and her team were daring to hope business confidence was recoveringUK economy shrinks unexpectedly in blow to ReevesBusiness live – latest updatesMay’s unexpected 0.1% decline in GDP will make depressing reading …
Chancellor’s Mansion House speech to cite ‘opportunity’ in attempt to shrug off anaemic economic performanceAnalysis: Fall in UK GDP puts focus back on expectations of tax rises in autumn budgetBusiness live – latest updatesRachel Reeves will attempt t…
Industry lobby group draws up 20-point plan to stop London ‘drifting into irrelevance’Nils Pratley: London’s stock exchange needs a shot in the arm from the TreasuryThe London stock market risks “drifting into irrelevance” without government and regula…
A marketing campaign is all very well but if the LSE’s fortunes are to turn, the real oomph needs to come from the chancellorLooser bonus rules and tax breaks needed to save London stock market, says CBI A marketing campaign to promote the joys of inve…
Office for Budget Responsibility warns national debt on course to hit 270% of GDP by 2070 amid volatilityBusiness live – latest updatesThe UK’s public finances are in a “relatively vulnerable position”, with pensions costs, climate change and volatile …
Exclusive: Chancellor says she never considered resigning and warns ‘there are costs’ to welfare bill U-turnRachel Reeves has said it is impossible for her to rule out tax rises in the autumn budget and insisted she never thought about quitting despite…
Charlie Bean says slim margin of £10bn means chancellor ‘has to neurotically fine-tune taxes to control OBR forecast’Business live – latest updatesThe former Bank of England deputy governor Charlie Bean has urged Rachel Reeves to create much wider head…
This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereMy colleague Lauren Almeida, who is running the Guardian’s business live blog, has shared the following:Rachel Reeves has not given herself enough fiscal headroom to manage public finances, C…
While the chancellor may have lost credibility among restive MPs, market moves suggest investors support herWhere does the climbdown leave the public finances?It was Bill Clinton’s political adviser James Carville, way back in the 1990s, who said that …