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Rachel Reeves has said the government's review into Sue Gray's appointment as Labour leader Keir Starmer's chief of staff is a "political gimmick", set up by ministers to pursue a "vendetta" against the former senior civil servant. Deputy…
Labour for a Republic has urged the party to "get a grip" on the royal finances and slammed current funding arrangements as an "insult to ordinary working people" ahead of the coronation of King Charles III next month. In a letter sent…
Just in case voters had begun to forget the details of Jeremy Hunt's budget for the fewest last month, Labour has new analysis out today that finds that the average worker would have to save for roughly 400 years to receive any benefit from…
Angela Rayner has denounced the Tories' decision to scrap the lifetime pension allowance as a "£1bn bung to the richest 1%" after analysis revealed that the average worker would have to save for 400 years to benefit from the change. Jeremy…
With three weeks (and a day) left until polling day in this year's local elections, all around England campaigns have begun in earnest. Keir Starmer is out today with Rachel Reeves in Great Yarmouth, talking about Labour's plan to…
Today is Budget day, and Jeremy Hunt is set to deliver his first Budget as Chancellor this afternoon amid the worst slump in real-terms wages since 2009. With new opinion polling out today that finds Labour leading the Conservatives 58% to…
Today is International Women's Day. At the TUC women's conference today, Rachel Reeves will announce the Labour is to launch a review of the gender pay gap. The Shadow Chancellor will say, "Barbara Castle’s Equal Pay Act in 1970 was…
Below is the full text of Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves' speech at MakeUK's annual conference in London this morning: Thank you Steph – and thank you Stephen at Make UK for inviting me here today. What a pleasure it is to be with you all…
Rachel Reeves is to speak today at the conference of the manufacturers' body MakeUK. The Shadow Chancellor is to reveal that in government Labour would conduct a business tax review. “When I meet business leaders, as well as a determination…
Labour has released a dossier documenting what it describes as nearly £30bn in wasted government spending during Rishi Sunak's time as Chancellor and Prime Minister. Rachel Reeves said the document was a "badge of shame" for the Prime…
This morning, Keir Starmer will continue outlining the "missions" that he has said will form the backbone of Labour's plans for government. The Labour leader will shortly give a speech in central London, and his comments will focus on the…
Rachel Reeves has declared that households struggling with the cost of living is the "reality of 13 years of Tory economic mismanagement" after a survey found that a quarter of people in the UK are regularly running out of money for…
