fiscal policy

The LabourList team dissect the budget with the help of economist and MP for Loughborough Jeevun Sandher.

Labour members widely endorse the government’s Budget measures, but are divided on approving development of the Rosebank oil field, exclusive polling for LabourList reveals.

The government has given itself breathing space with the budget. It will be judged on how it uses it to show what comes next.

Voters welcome the government’s energy bill support, but think more needs to be done at pace to help ordinary people with rising prices, a same-day study of reaction to the Budget has revealed.

Although measures like the £100 energy payment and increasing the threshold for business rates were well-received, some said the Budget was a “missed opportunity” for more radical reform.

Here is a summary of the measures included in John Healey's first Budget as Chancellor – alongside the OBR's forecasts for the economy.

The substance of Reform's offering to the country is equally lacklustre, and appears to be nothing short of – as I saw it described on Twitter – "boomer slop".

Rachel Taylor MP argues that the logisitics industry is keeping the economy going and delivering growth in every postcode.

NEU General Secretary Daniel Kebede argues that we must learn from the continent and ensure we invest properly in schools.

Ahead of John Healey's first Budget tomorrow, MPs, trade union leaders and think tanks have set out their priorities.

It's important the Prime Minister and Chancellor ignore some of the nonsense out there about heat pumps and focus on the longer term.

Ahead of the Budget, Josh Newbury MP argues that government’s £461 billion annual spend is one of the most underused levers for growth available to the state.