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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…
Resolution Foundation says half of all public spending will be allocated to the NHS and social care by the end of the decadeBusiness live – latest updatesBritain is on track to become a “National Health State” where half of all public spending is alloc…
Institute for Fiscal Studies says Treasury figures for projected efficiency savings are not credibleUK on track to become a ‘National Health State’, says thinktankRachel Reeves is now on ITV’s Good Morning Britain. Susannah Reid and Richard Madeley are…
Worse than forecast April GDP data shows challenge facing Rachel Reeves to kickstart growth to fund spending reviewBusiness live – latest updatesThe UK economy contracted in April by 0.3% as businesses cut jobs and cancelled investment plans in respons…