UK interest rate cut may not be enough to improve voters’ dim view of the government

Rachel Reeves’s tax pledges may have to give as the chancellor faces an anxious few months ahead. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

The return of spring weather across much of the UK last week brought some rare glimmers of sunshine for the UK’s struggling economy too – including a confidence-boosting interest rate cut, with hopes of more to come.

And as Keir Starmer hopes to seal a closer trading relationship with the EU, he is urging voters to look “forward, not back”.