Rachel Reeves’s Budget set off a series of wrong turns for Britain’s fragile recovery - AP Photo/Virginia Mayo A challenging 2024 is now behind us, but don’t fall for the idea that Rachel ...

Thousands of state schools will get a funding boost next year, Rachel Reeves has promised as Labour ends tax breaks enjoyed by private schools on New Year’s Day. Writing for the Mirror ...

Reeves doesn’t have the advantage of that generous inheritance. Jeremy Hunt may protest that she has exaggerated the awfulness of the public finances that he bequeathed her, but it is safe to ...

Although Rachel Reeves takes advice from all her predecessors – including George Osborne – she models herself on Gordon Brown the most. Brown, the UK’s longest-serving chancellor, prided himself on ...

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Rachel Reeves has been warned that there are more challenges to come in 2025, as the chancellor gears up for her spending review amid flatlining economic growth. Carl Emmerson, deputy director of ...

Rachel Reeves has been warned that there are more challenges to come in 2025, as the chancellor gears up for her spending review amid flatlining economic growth. Carl Emmerson, deputy director of the ...

Rachel Reeves could be forced to raise further cash through higher taxes amid a sluggish economy, which would break her pledge. That would be on top of the £40billion raid announced in her ...

Rachel Reeves has little headroom left as her spending rules set out just two months ago are at risk of being broken. Her October Budget tax raid has led to a surge in borrowing costs which has ...

Rachel Reeves has been chosen as “the worst politician of 2024” with even moderate voices declaring that they would “get rid of her” if they were Keir Starmer. The award was delivered on ...

Borrowing costs have surged in the wake of Rachel Reeves’s maiden Budget - JOHN THYS/AFP Rachel Reeves is at risk of breaking spending rules she set just two months ago as her record tax raid ...