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Chancellor insists she still has large black hole to fill despite stronger than expected growth in first half of 2024

Rachel Reeves must show how the Tories failed to tackle longstanding productivity, investment and trade deficits and stress how Labour can

Letters: Readers respond to a piece by Neal Lawson on the party’s decision to expel activists who united to oust Jeremy Hunt

Ms Reeves clashed with her predecessor Jeremy Hunt over the public finances

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…

Bank’s governor says planned awards of 5-6% would have relatively small impact on headline inflation

Reeves claimed the public finances face an extra £22 billion hole inherited from the Conservatives and warned of "difficult decisions" ahead

Phoenix Group and Schroders will target fast-growing green energy, windfarms, solar, property and small business

Ahead of her first budget, Rachel Reeves refused to rule out hiking capital gains and inheritance tax and pursuing pension reform to fill the £22bn black hole in the public finances