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TUC calls on chancellor to focus on child poverty and upping minimum wage

Budgets need to be reassuringly dull with no repeat of this year’s long, drawn-out and chaotic buildup

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