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£240m in Budget for local services to help people back into work, Starmer says

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will deliver her first Budget on Wednesday.

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Every group has plenty to fear from a Halloween Budget

Fear is the watchword for this most important of Budgets. For those who own shares, or second homes, or cannot conceivably be defined as “working people” (whoever they are), the fear is of tax rises. From capital gains to pension relief and inheritance tax, the Chancellor is looking to raise…

Evening Standard

Watch: Starmer warns Britain faces ‘unprecedented challenges’ ahead of Budget

Watch as Sir Keir Starmer warned that Britain faces "unprecedented challenges" in a speech on Monday, 28 October, ahead of Labour's first Budget for 14 years.

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'Duped': Anas Sarwar pledges end of austerity – despite Budget of cuts and tax rises

THE Labour Government Budget “will end the era of austerity”, Anas Sarwar has claimed – on the same day as the Prime Minister warned that…

The National (Scotland)

Budget ‘most honest’ in years, Cabinet minister claims

Pat McFadden said Rachel Reeves’ first Budget will ‘end the fiscal fiction of things being announced which had no money set aside for them’.

Evening Standard

Budget 2024: Keir Starmer hit with growing row over billions in tax rises 'breaking' Labour manifesto

Cabinet minister Pat McFadden denies Labour ‘misled’ voters during the election campaign

Evening Standard

George Kerevan: How a Trump win would undermine Rachel Reeves’s Budget game plan

HANG on to your economic hats. On Wednesday, Rachel Reeves will present her long-awaited Budget. Keir Starmer’s Labour Party will have to put up…

The National (Scotland)

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Hunt accuses Budget watchdog of political bias

Jeremy Hunt accuses the Budget watchdog of failing to be impartial since the Labour Party came into office

The Independent UK

Rachel Reeves borrows George Osborne’s mantra in ‘strivers’ Budget

But Keir Starmer vows no return to austerity as he paves way for tax rises and spending cuts

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer gambles tens of billions more in tax and borrow Budget to invest in ‘new future’ for Britain

The Prime Minister warns the nation of the ‘harsh light of fiscal reality’

Evening Standard

Starmer: Budget will ’embrace harsh light of fiscal reality’

The Prime Minister will warn of ‘unprecedented’ economic challenges as he delivers a speech on Monday.

Evening Standard

Scottish Greens will vote against SNP Budget if it cuts council funding

Scottish Green members have sent a stark warning to the SNP, setting out the party’s “red lines” ahead of Scottish Budget negotiations ...

The National (Scotland)

Scottish Greens reveal ‘minimum needed' for party to support SNP Budget

THE Scottish Greens have set out the "very minimum" the party needs to support the forthcoming SNP Government Budget.

The National (Scotland)

Homeowners in UK at 'greater risk' of higher mortgages from Donald Trump win than Rachel Reeves Labour Budget

The warning comes from former Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane

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No tax hike ‘on payslips’, minister insists amid confusion over ‘working people’

Bridget Phillipson refused to say whether a small business owner earning around £13,000 in net profit would count as a working person.

The Independent UK

Military families set to be exempt from Labour’s controversial VAT on private school fees

Extra support to protect them from the hike expected to be announced in chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget

The National (Scotland)

Scottish Government warns Labour Budget could cost NHS Scotland 2000 nurses

THE UK Government’s upcoming Budget could cost NHS Scotland “2000 nurses”, the Scottish Government has warned ...

The Independent UK

Budget 2024: Education secretary gives Labour’s latest definition of ‘working people’

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has shared the latest definition of “working people” from Labour’s manifesto.

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£1.4 billion to fix ‘crumbling’ schools as Reeves pledges to prioritise education and free childcare in Budget

Labour chancellor said children ‘should not suffer’ because of a £22 billion ‘black hole’ left by last Tory government

Evening Standard

Budget will bring ‘era of growth’ for Scotland, vows Murray

The Scottish Secretary was speaking ahead of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s spending statement on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Voices: Rachel Reeves might just get away with breaking her promise – here’s how

George Bush Sr and Nick Clegg paid the price for making U-turns, but other politicians have escaped the voters’ wrath – could the chancellor, too?

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer denies misleading public over tax rises in the Budget

The prime minister also rejected claims he was waging ‘war on middle Britain’ after he suggested shareholders and landlords were not ‘working people’ on trip to Commonwealth summit in Samoa

Evening Standard

PM denies misleading the public over tax rises in Labour manifesto

The Prime Minister rejected claims he had waged a ‘war on middle Britain’.

Evening Standard

Scotland’s block grant falls to lowest share of UK spending in a decade – study

The SNP is urging the Chancellor to increase the cash going to Holyrood in her upcoming Budget.

Evening Standard

Chancellor to cut back Right to Buy discounts in Budget

Rachel Reeves’s Budget plans on housing will include reducing Right to Buy discounts.

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