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Annual rate slows in May from 3.5% in April despite record increase in chocolate pricesBusiness live – latest updatesInflation in the UK eased slightly to 3.4% last month as a steep fall in air fares and petrol prices was offset by a jump in the cost o…
Sources say party should have focused on the moral case for reforming the benefits systemUK politics live – latest updatesGovernment officials have admitted they made a mistake by making the financial case for cutting benefits as they steel themselves …
Sources say party should have focused on the moral case for reforming the benefits systemUK politics live – latest updatesGovernment officials have admitted they made a mistake by making the financial case for cutting benefits as they steel themselves …
Chancellor is keen to mollify wealthy global investors and attract foreign investment into the UKBusiness live – latest updatesRachel Reeves is considering caving in to City lobbying and softening changes to inheritance tax that affect wealthy individu…
Rachel Reeves calls Britain’s biggest road-building project a ‘turning point for our national infrastructure’The government has pledged a further £590m towards Britain’s biggest road-building project, the controversial and long-delayed Lower Thames Cro…
Chancellor used Barnett formula to fund Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, despite their larger public sectorsRachel Reeves has been accused of shortchanging the UK’s devolved nations after leaving the Welsh, Scottish and northern Irish governments …
Chancellor says PM ‘not grandstanding’ and wanted to ‘assure himself’ that national public inquiry was necessaryRachel Reeves has defended Keir Starmer’s decision to launch a national inquiry into historic child sexual exploitation after months of pres…
Rachel Reeves is increasing overall budgets after deep Tory cuts, but some departments face bigger spending cuts than othersRachel Reeves usually avoids any mention of the word “austerity” in connection with her fiscal policies, but on Wednesday, she d…
Blistering analysis by outgoing chief concludes chancellor likely to end up ‘gnat’s whisker’ away from tax risesYou can only conclude that Paul Johnson is demob-happy. The director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies is off to run an Oxford college in …
Chancellor says criteria for getting personal independence payment are being reviewedUK politics live – latest updatesRachel Reeves has ruled out a U-turn on disability benefit cuts but said she was “taking into account” representations from Labour MPs…