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From the outside, the run-up to Rachel Reeves’s announcement has looked chaotic, and many see the future of the chancellor and PM in the balance

Simon Case says voters will look elsewhere if chancellor cannot find solutions to tax, spending and debt problems

The Prime Minister declined to recommit to manifesto pledges on tax despite being asked 12 times during a broadcast interview

Mohamed says decision to leave was after ‘many false allegations and smears’ against him and others

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The Covid inquiry’s conclusion that the needless loss of 23,000 lives was due to government decision-making at the start of the pandemic, made worse by the toxic and chaotic leadership of Boris Johnson, has yet to make many leading Tories of the day sufficiently penitent

Editorial: The latest report on the pandemic shows that grave failings were not limited to Boris Johnson. The government needs to prepare for the next crisis

Party’s former leader in Wales admitted taking payments to make statements in favour of Russia

Iqbal Mohamed said he had decided to leave Your Party and continue to serve his Dewsbury and Batley constituency as an Independent MP.

It would be expedient for Reform to take Labour’s advice and disavow ‘Putin talking points’

Ahead of next Wednesday’s Budget, Full Fact looks at the detail of Labour’s manifesto commitments.

The party sees its harsh policies as politically necessary. But what happened to talking up the value of migrants for a thriving economy and society, asks Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee