Think tank says GDP growth is likely to be 0.2 percentage points lower in the first year of tariffs if implemented by the US ...

Hundreds of landlords called time on their business during 2024 and from April next year a number of policies from Rachel Reeves' autumn Budget will come into force which could put the nail in the ...

Rachel Reeves is facing humiliation as borrowing costs soared to higher than they were after Liz Truss's disastrous mini-Budget. Economic experts warned the Chancellor was on the verge of breaking ...

Suddenly, Rachel Reeves is everywhere ... They got the message, even before Reeves delivered her Budget. VAT on school fees, removing the winter fuel allowance for pensioners, not on benefits ...

Rachel Reeves’ Budget created a vicious circle whereby higher taxes increased borrowing costs, squeezing the public purse and further and tempting the Chancellor into further tax rises to meet ...

Rachel Reeves has been accused of ­cooking up a desperate war on waste to cover up her Budget blunders fallout But the Tories blasted the move as a political stunt to mask spiralling debt and a ...

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves will ... Her October budget pledged to significantly slow spending ahead of the next election, and since then Reeves’ room for maneuver has been slashed ...

Rachel Reeves’s much-trailed speech today is a ... However, her speech in Oxfordshire felt like another Budget speech only three months after she delivered her first one, as she listed ...

Experts warn that this puts the government on track to miss the main fiscal rule Rachel Reeves set in her maiden Autumn Budget: the borrowing targets. And if the Office for Budget Responsibility ...

Rachel Reeves was seeking to win over business chiefs ... to argue that ‘there is no alternative to our last Budget”. She also stressed that the chairman of the Competition and Markets ...

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The International Monetary Fund has offered only luke-warm support for Rachel Reeves’ big-spending budget, upgrading its growth forecast for this year by just 0.1 percentage points and leaving ...