Budget 2024: Reeves ‘considering £40bn tax hikes and spending cuts’ – but falling inflation relieves pressure on Chancellor
Rachel Reeves is looking at making £40bn worth of tax rises and spending cuts in the upcoming Budget…
Austerity
Budget 2024: £25bn tax rises needed to avoid austerity, think tank warns
Rachel Reeves could be forced to raise billions of pounds in additional tax revenue if she wishes to…
Chancellor Rachel Reeves conference speech to pledge no austerity and ‘real ambition’ despite tough decisions
Chancellor Rachel Reeves will pledge to conference that this autumn’s budget will “rebuild Britain” and deliver the change…
‘The left can’t sit this out. We must stop austerity, purges and pandering to right’
After 14 years of austerity and privatisation, the Tories are out. We now have a Labour Government that…
LGA Labour chief: More councils risk collapse amid ‘austerity 2.0’
The leader of the Local Government Association Labour group has declared that Labour councils are “providing a shield”…
Could Cameron tempt Sunak to make the election about austerity?
Austerity Dave: Opportunities and dangers Good morning. Predictably, the second coming of David Cameron, reincarnated as the messiah of…
‘Labour can bring back Big Government – and rein in the Elon Musks of the world’
Is there any version of the future in which you can imagine Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of…
‘The government’s plans for post-election spending cuts are a trap for Labour’
This is a story about public capital investment. I know it might not sound like the makings of…
‘Labour will need a cross-government plan to tackle youth homelessness’
According to Centrepoint’s latest estimates, 129,000 young people approached their council for help to avoid becoming homeless last…
‘Labour must be radical fixing Tory crises – or risk sharing blame for them’
Labour is on a mission – or five missions to be precise, with leader Keir Starmer due to…
