Who key Budget policies are aimed at – and the electoral strategy they signal
The Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget today gives one of the biggest signs yet of Labour’s electoral strategy over the…
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Autumn Budget 2024: Updates and reaction as £40bn tax hikes and huge NHS boost unveiled
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is unveiling Labour’s first Budget since 2010 today, laying out new spending policies alongside long-promised…
Budget 2024: ‘How Rachel Reeves will turn the page on the Tories’ economic illiteracy’
As Rachel Reeves delivers the first Labour Budget in nearly fifteen years today, she will demonstrate what Labour…
Budget 2024: National Minimum Wage set for record hike and Living Wage to rise 6.7%
Union leaders have welcomed plans to boost the National Living Wage as making a “real difference to the…
Budget bus fare row: ‘The £2 cap was a rare policy that dramatically improves lives – it’s so cheap people talk about it’
Keir Starmer is missing the point of the £2 bus fare. He’s failing to recognise that investment in…
Budget 2024: Bus fare cap row rumbles on as Burnham sticks to £2 cap
Andy Burham has said Greater Manchester will retain its £2 cap on single bus fares for the whole…
Sam White: ‘Budget 2024 leaves Reeves facing nine circles of fiscal hell’
In the ‘Divine Comedy’, Dante tells the story of the hero being led through the Nine Circles of…
Keir Starmer Budget speech: Key points and stream as PM vows tax rises to stop austerity
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has warned Labour must “run towards tough decisions” in the Budget, warning of tax…
Budget 2024: ‘Tax booze, betting and tobacco to raise cash and public health’
Rachel Reeves is going to face the mother of all juggling acts when she comes to deliver her…
Budget 2024: ‘Reeves has the nation’s morale in her hands, not just its finances’
Economists will say it’s illogical. They will point to inflation falling and salaries now climbing faster than prices…
