Labour’s policy on non-doms mostly copied from Conservatives, say Whitehall sources Rachel Reeves said to have dismissed concerns about policy, even though it contained ‘basic errors’ The Guardian - UK · Sep 27, 2024
How Rachel Reeves could release billions more for investment in the budget The chancellor has signalled that she may change some of the government’s fiscal rules in her speech. What are they – and what could that mean? The Guardian - UK · Sep 27, 2024
Elon Musk Tells Followers To Avoid The UK After Country Refuses To Invite Him To Top Investment Summit Elon Musk is hitting back at the UK government for not inviting him to the International Investment Summit in October despite not attending last year's event. International Business Times · Sep 26, 2024
Elon Musk Tells Followers to Avoid the UK After Country Refuses to Invite Him to Top Investment Summit Elon Musk is hitting back at the UK government for not inviting him to the International Investment Summit in October despite not attending last year's event. Latin Times · Sep 26, 2024
Labour crackdown on non-doms may raise no money, officials fear Exclusive: Watchdog may conclude that emigration of wealthy individuals could actually cost Treasury revenue The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2024
Corporate UK tax breaks to cost £20bn more than they generate, study finds Exclusive: Relief rolled out in 2023 will cost £30bn in taxes but spur only up to £10.5bn investment, analysis shows The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2024
Ten years after the no vote, can Scotland engineer a case for independence? The SNP is keen to keep the issue alive, but others, including former PM Gordon Brown, say leaving the UK could see the economy founder The Guardian - UK · Sep 15, 2024
Boris Johnson called Tory MPs ‘chicken s***’ over Dominic Cummings criticism, memoir claims In a memoir about his time leading the 1922 Committee , Sir Graham Brady has laid bare the backroom deals behind the most turbulent decade in Tory history The Independent UK · Sep 14, 2024
Rachel Reeves is right to scrap Jeremy Hunt’s gimmicky British Isa Good riddance to Hunt’s muddled and pointless creation – prodding pension funds may do more to wake up the UK stock market The Guardian - UK · Sep 4, 2024
Civil service chief backs UK government claim of £22bn shortfall Simon Case criticises Tory government’s failure to hold regular spending reviews in letter to Jeremy Hunt – who had challenged figure The Guardian - UK · Sep 3, 2024
Cabinet Secretary backs Labour in ‘Tory £22bn black hole’ row Simon Case rebukes Conservatives for suggesting Labour exaggerated state of public finances The Independent UK · Sep 3, 2024
Home Office criticised over ‘woefully’ understated Tory asylum budgets An IFS report vindicates Labour concerns that it inherited a worse financial situation than previously thought The Guardian - UK · Aug 28, 2024
Tuesday briefing: Will the public buy Labour’s plan to pin difficult decisions on the Tories? In today’s newsletter: After his honeymoon period, Keir Starmer tries to sell hard choices to voters The Guardian - UK · Aug 27, 2024
Reeves can point to ONS public finances report as cover for a harsh budget October review is expected to be eye-wateringly severe, but chancellor will draw on official data to make her case The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2024 UK government borrowing hits higher than expected £3.1bn in July Figures come amid row between Labour and Conservatives over true state of public finances
The Guardian - UK · Aug 20, 2024 Rachel Reeves planning to raise taxes and cut spending in October budget Chancellor insists she still has large black hole to fill despite stronger than expected growth in first half of 2024
The Guardian - UK · Aug 18, 2024 GDP growth is strong but it masks UK plc’s deep-seated structural problems Rachel Reeves must show how the Tories failed to tackle longstanding productivity, investment and trade deficits and stress how Labour can
The Guardian - UK · Aug 14, 2024 Reeves should nail down UK AstraZeneca deal. A collapse would be embarrassing Chancellor hopes to cut state aid for Speke vaccine plant to £40m. But pro-growth Treasury must not let project slip overseas
The Independent UK · Aug 14, 2024 Jeremy Hunt accuses Rachel Reeves of preparing to use inflation rise as cover for ‘planned’ tax hike Shadow chancellow took a swipe at the woman who replaced him last month, saying she must not use the latest data to bring in ‘tax rises she had planned all along’
The Guardian - UK · Aug 14, 2024 Blow to AstraZeneca vaccine project as Reeves plans funding cuts Chancellor reportedly seeking to cut £20m from the £65m promised by Hunt to Merseyside manufacturing plant
The National (Scotland) · Aug 13, 2024 Kemi Badenoch comes out top among Tory leadership contenders in new party member poll NEW polling has found Tory leadership contender Kemi Badenoch is the most popular shadow cabinet minister among Conservative members.
The Guardian - UK · Aug 8, 2024 Green party’s ‘progressive politics’ leaves members out in the cold Letters: Readers respond to a piece by Neal Lawson on the party’s decision to expel activists who united to oust Jeremy Hunt
Evening Standard · Aug 7, 2024 Jury out on Chancellor Rachel Reeves, new poll shows after '£22 billion black hole' row Ms Reeves clashed with her predecessor Jeremy Hunt over the public finances
The Conversation · Aug 2, 2024 Why Rachel Reeves can’t seem to make her ‘£22bn black hole’ narrative convincing Rachel Reeves had hardly stepped down from the dispatch box to make her first big statement as chancellor of the exchequer before facing a furious backlash. She had claimed to have discovered a £22bn hole in public finances upon taking office and was using it to explain why the new…
The Guardian - UK · Aug 1, 2024 Bank of England dismisses Tory claims public sector pay rises will stoke inflation Bank’s governor says planned awards of 5-6% would have relatively small impact on headline inflation