Budget: Labour warned two child benefit cap to hit 900,000 more children by 2030
Labour faces fresh pressure to scrap the two-child benefit cap following its first Budget, after new figures showed…
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‘A proper Labour Budget’: MPs, unions and readers overjoyed at NHS and NMW cash – but some fear for public services
“Lots of messages in my Constituency Labour Party WhatsApp saying they are looking forward to canvassing this weekend…
Autumn Budget 2024: Read Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ full Budget speech
Madam Deputy Speaker, on July the 4th, the country voted for change. This government was given a mandate…
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…
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…
GMB says energy workers must be ‘front and centre’ shaping net zero policy, warning over ‘homogenisation’ of MPs
The national secretary of the GMB union has warned that workers in energy and manufacturing must be put…
