Rachel Reeves ‘uncomfortable’ listening to Kemi Badenoch’s Budget response The Tory leader said her ‘job is to hold the Government to account, not to provide emotional support for the Chancellor’. Evening Standard · Nov 30, 2025
Rachel Reeves hits back at claims she misled public on Budget headroom Both the Conservative party and the SNP have written to the Financial Conduct Authority asking for an investigation into The Chancellor’s comments Evening Standard · Nov 30, 2025
Rachel Reeves faces calls to quit after watchdog contradicts her £30bn ‘black hole’ warning The Chancellor faces cross-party anger after revelations that the UK’s supposed £30bn fiscal gap was actually just £2.5bn, fuelling claims she misled voters to justify tax rises Evening Standard · Nov 29, 2025
How Motability cuts went from a rightwing online campaign to Rachel Reeves’s budget Car lease scheme for people with mobility problems portrayed as ‘free’ but is funded by benefits and their own contributions The Guardian - UK · Nov 29, 2025
No 10 denies Reeves 'lied to public about £21bn black hole' before budget Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch claimed the Chancellor ‘lied to the public’ and was ‘bribing Labour MPs to save her own skin’ Evening Standard · Nov 28, 2025
Reeves accused of misleading public on Budget black hole to justify £26bn tax raid Badenoch claims chancellor ‘lied to the public’ and was ‘bribing Labour MPs to save her own skin’ The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2025
Four claims from the 2025 Budget debate fact checked Full Fact takes a look at claims about tax thresholds, NHS appointments, unemployment and house building. Evening Standard · Nov 27, 2025
Wes Streeting makes damning BMA claims in explosive letter to GPs The Health Secretary and the BMA are in dispute over changes to how patients can contact their family doctors The Independent UK · Nov 27, 2025
Has Rachel Reeves broken her manifesto promises with the budget? Reeves told MPs she had stuck to her pledges. Responding, Kemi Badenoch said the opposite. Who is right? The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2025
Millions more dragged into paying higher income tax in Reeves’s £26bn Budget squeeze Chancellor admits ‘I am asking ordinary people to pay a little more’ as she unveils dozens of tax rises, but finally scraps the much-criticised two-child benefit cap The Independent UK · Nov 26, 2025
OBR’s leak was the only leak Reeves wasn’t responsible for in pre-budget shambles Chancellor tried a different approach to this budget, revealing all her plans and causing chaos before she even delivered it The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2025
Badenoch takes aim at Reeves over chancellor’s complaints of misogyny Kemi Badenoch used her Bidget speech to launch an extraordinary attack on Ms Reeves, accusing her of ‘whining’ over sexism claims The Independent UK · Nov 26, 2025
Budget 2025: Renters braced for price hikes after Rachel Reeves hits landlords with tax increase The Conservative leader says Rachel Reeves’s plan to increase taxes on rental income will force landlords out of the market and leave tenants paying the price The Independent UK · Nov 26, 2025
Rayner should pay back ‘avoided’ tax if she returns to Cabinet – Badenoch Kemi Badenoch claimed the Prime Minister is considering bringing back Ms Rayner because he is ‘desperate to shore up his crumbling leadership’. Evening Standard · Nov 26, 2025
The Independent UK · Nov 26, 2025 Rachel Reeves says Labour does not need to raise taxes in Budget in resurfaced clip Rachel Reeves vowed not to increase taxes in the Budget, a resurfaced clip shared by Kemi Badenoch shows.
The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2025 Budget 2025: Reeves claims freezing tax thresholds in budget does not breach manifesto pledge – as it happened Chancellor says she will not ‘get into semantics’ when questioned on issue after her statement
Evening Standard · Nov 25, 2025 Kemi Badenoch calls on Wes Streeting to stop puberty blocker trial The Health Secretary has said the trial will ‘provide better evidence for how the NHS can support and treat young people with gender incongruence’.
Evening Standard · Nov 25, 2025 Cleverly distances himself from Hollinrake’s Reform UK jibe A Tory split has opened up after Kevin Hollinrake appeared to liken the Reform UK logo to a Nazi badge.
The Independent UK · Nov 24, 2025 Tory row erupts over jibe comparing Reform logo to Nazi badge Conservative leader intervenes after party chair’s controversial tweet about Nigel Farage’s party
Evening Standard · Nov 24, 2025 Badenoch defends Tory chairman over Nazi jibe at Reform Kemi Badenoch said Kevin Hollinrake’s response to a Reform UK emblem was intended as a joke.
Evening Standard · Nov 24, 2025 Kyle seeks to reassure business over workers’ rights concerns Business Secretary Peter Kyle promised a series of consultations would listen to firms’ concerns on how the Employment Rights Bill is implemented.
The Independent UK · Nov 24, 2025 Government must make ‘hard choices and change course’, CBI boss to say Rain Newton-Smith will tell ministers and business leaders that firms are worried the UK could ‘risk getting locked in a stop-start economy’.
Evening Standard · Nov 23, 2025 Badenoch to take aim at ‘anti-growth’ employment rights reforms She is expected to say the Employment Rights Bill is ‘the single most complained-about measure’ she hears when she speaks to businesses.
The Independent UK · Nov 23, 2025 Seven out of 10 Tories believe Conservative Party will prop up a Farage government With polling suggesting the Tories are facing a wipeout, a survey of Conservative Party members reveals they support the idea of a deal with Reform UK
Evening Standard · Nov 22, 2025 Conservatives are set to plunge to just 14 seats at next general election Party insiders are said to be alarmed by the research