The Latest Breaking News from Budget

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

Evening Standard · Oct 27, 2024

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.

Evening Standard · Oct 27, 2024

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 Independent UK · Oct 27, 2024

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 · Oct 26, 2024

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

The Independent UK · Oct 26, 2024

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 · Oct 26, 2024

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 · Oct 25, 2024

Chancellor to cut back Right to Buy discounts in Budget

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

Evening Standard · Oct 25, 2024

Starmer is a ‘working person’ says Chancellor as tax rise questions persist

The Government continues to be asked to pin down the term ahead of tax rises expected in next week’s Budget.

Evening Standard · Oct 25, 2024

Expect more bad vibes from Labour with Rachel Reeves's Budget

IF the news is a trumpet an impeding Budget is a great buoy-shaped mute jammed into the horn.

The National (Scotland) · Oct 25, 2024