The Chancellor will have to consider a set of unenviable choices about how to respond if her financial leeway vanishes, as ...

Sanjay Raja, Deutsche Bank’s chief UK economist, told the Daily Telegraph that Reeves is likely to extend the freeze on ...

The Chancellor is under political pressure because of a lack of growth and related fear of a recession caused by her Budget, ...

EXCLUSIVE: A new report from data firm Suffrago estimates which parts of the country will suffer the most if the Chancellor ...

The bad news continues to pile up for chancellor Rachel Reeves. Increases in the cost of borrowing ... with another £3 billion for capital investment. The autumn budget was a profound statement of ...

In October, the OBR’s forecasts showed Reeves had £9.9bn of “headroom” against her target for the current budget to be in balance by 2029-30 — leaving herself “almost no wriggle room”, on the ...

Andy Burnham’s former nightlife adviser is considering leaving Labour after declaring Rachel Reeves’ Budget plans will ...

Labour donor Sacha Lord has threatened to quit the party over the chancellor’s tax-hiking autumn statement unless there are urgent changes ...

Rachel Reeves is facing some more tough decisions on tax, spending and borrowing this year. As Britain’s public finances are being battered, economists are warning that her economic cushion, or fiscal ...

But this is a risky strategy. January’s sell-off showed that investors are alive to the UK’s fiscal challenges. Regardless of ...