Budget 2025: What were the key measures announced by the Chancellor?
Rachel Reeves has now delivered the 2025 Budget.
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Streeting makes eve of budget intervention on child health, poverty and two-child limit
Health Secretary Wes Streeting makes a wide ranging intervention on child poverty on the eve of the budget.
Workers to receive extra £900 a year from living wage increase
Rachel Reeves has announced an increase in the National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage ahead of a Budget she says will aim to cut the cost of living.
Budget: Almost all Labour members back levies on gambling and banking sector
Labour members would almost unanimously back increased taxes on the gambling and banking sector in the Budget, along with a shake-up of council tax thresholds.
‘Taxing private jets can help the rest of us soar’
Amid economic challenges and rising emissions, fairer taxes on private jets can raise revenue and ensure the super-rich bear their share.
‘Low growth, low productivity, low ambition: the budget needs to tackle the real problem’
Until we commit to long term increases in public investment we remain stuck treating the symptoms of a sick economy instead of curing it.
Letters to the Editor – week ending 23rd November 2025
Read what people have been writing to our editor about this week. Find out how to share your own views here. Shelter from the storm? I left the Labour party today in part because the tone and rhetoric of the asylum/migrants debate put me on…
Budget 2025: What do MPs, trade unions and think tanks want from Reeves?
LabourList spoke to MPs, think tanks and some of the nation’s trade unions to ask what they want to see from Reeves’ big announcement next Wednesday.
‘Bond markets explained: How in hock are we – and can we break free?’
The bond markets have an outsized importance in our politics. But what are they? And why do they have such an impact on our economy?
‘PFI was a disaster — Labour mustn’t repeat it’
PFI has been a disaster - so why are Labour considering going back to it asks We Own It's Sophie Conquest.
Budget 2025: Full list of Labour MPs backing wealth tax motion
More than two dozen Labour MPs have backed a motion by Leeds East MP Richard Burgon calling for an annual wealth tax.
‘Our coalition is fracturing. We can rebuild it by making life affordable again’
We have lost around half of the voters who supported us last July. Voters are leaving us because life is unaffordable and they want transformational change. Most of our lost voters are going to the left - to the Greens, the Lib Dems - or to…