Browsing: Reeves

Britain’s long-term borrowing costs have hit their highest level in 27 years, intensifying the pressure on the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, before the autumn budget.The yield, or…

Depending on whose forecasts you believe, in the autumn budget the UK chancellor needs to find £25-£50bn to cover day-to-day spending, let alone to raise the…

Rachel Reeves is in favour of radical tax reform – or at least she was in 2018. “We need a radical overhaul of the tax system…

Rachel Reeves is considering plans for a tax on expensive homes in an effort to raise billions of pounds and close a large hole in the…

Over the summer Rachel Reeves has been on a road trip around Britain. From Cornwall and Kent, to Aberdeen, south Wales and Belfast, in search of…

Rachel Reeves will need to raise taxes to close a government spending gap that is on course to reach more than £40bn after a slowdown in…

Labour does not “deserve” to win the next election if it does not change the country, Rachel Reeves has said, as she acknowledged some voters were…

Government urged to consider wealth tax as chancellor visits ScotlandGood morning and welcome to the UK politics blog. My name is Tom Ambrose and I’ll be…

Tin mining is poised for a comeback in Cornwall after the UK government invested almost £29m to reopen the county’s last tin mine, creating more than…

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have been urged by a group of the world’s leading economists to use the autumn budget to prepare Britain for the…