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Mandelson arrest latest: Badenoch hits out at Starmer’s ‘deeply flawed’ judgement as ex-Labour peer released on bail

Ex-Labour minister accused of passing sensitive information onto paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein during time as business secretary

The Independent UK

Triple boost for Rachel Reeves with retail sales jump, exports rise and record public finances surplus

Shoppers returned to spending in the New Year and the Treasury raked in billions more than expected in tax

Evening Standard

Reform would restore two-child benefit cap in full, Jenrick to pledge

The former Tory minister is to make his first speech as Reform’s Treasury spokesman.

Evening Standard

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Robert Jenrick to outline Reform UK plans for Bank of England and OBR

Nigel Farage named his top team on Tuesday, which included Conservative defectors Mr Jenrick and Suella Braverman.

Evening Standard

UK economy disappoints in 2025 after ‘subdued’ year-end growth

Official figures showed gross domestic product rose by 0.1% in the fourth quarter, following growth of 0.1% in the previous three months.

Evening Standard

Lib Dem plans to axe the Treasury in London slammed as 'gimmick whose sums don't add up'

The proposal risks sparking worries for thousands of civil servants who work at the economic ministry in Whitehall

Evening Standard

Tory leader Badenoch returns to McDonald’s kitchen

Kemi Badenoch said she had lots of good memories of working at the fast food chain as a teenager.

Evening Standard

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Kemi Badenoch told she’s ‘too slow’ by McDonald’s staff during return visit

Kemi Badenoch previously claimed she ‘became working class’ working at McDonald’s

The Independent UK

Badenoch shoots herself in the foot on the Tories’ long march to the right

Not content with haemorrhaging MPs to Reform, Kemi decides to drive others into the arms of the Lib Dems

The Guardian - UK

Firms warn over impact of rising business costs from Government policies

Retailer Currys, pub group JD Wetherspoon and supermarket Morrisons became the latest to caution over the effects of business costs hikes.

Evening Standard

London jobs crisis: Rachel Reeves has hit hiring and is driving posts abroad, warns Currys boss

Alex Baldock, chief executive of the technology giant, says the Chancellor has undermined the retail sector

Evening Standard

‘Not so clever after all’: how Robert Jenrick was ejected before he defected

Kemi Badenoch praised for sacking Jenrick before he could announce he was ditching Tories for Reform

The Guardian - UK

Claims Reeves’s post-Budget U-turns cost her £3bn of £22bn headroom in just six weeks

The chancellor is under pressure to turn her March spring statement into a mini-Budget after a series of concessions and U-turns in recent weeks

The Independent UK

Kemi Badenoch says US action in Venezuela was ‘morally’ right

Ms Badenoch said ‘what happens in Greenland has got to be up to the people of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark’.

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The Independent UK

Worst investment levels in the G7 ‘should ring alarm bells in Downing Street’

Chancellor Rachel Reeves accused of driving down business confidence with ‘broken commitments’

The Independent UK

UK economy unexpectedly shrank in October in fresh blow for Rachel Reeves

Economy contracted by 0.1 per cent in October, according to the Office for National Statistics

The Independent UK

Reeves admits Budget leaks were ‘extremely damaging’ but insists she wasn’t to blame

Chancellor hits out at ‘too many leaks’ and says inquiry is underway to root out the person responsible

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves will not be investigated over pre-budget briefing, FCA says

Regulator leaves door open for follow-up as it rejects calls for formal inquiry into claims against Treasury officials

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Evening Standard

Budget crisis engulfs Rachel Reeves as OBR watchdog slams Treasury briefings

The leading economists also predict that interest rates will fall from 4% to 3.5% by the second quarter of 2026

Evening Standard

Did Rachel Reeves lie to justify her £26billion Budget tax raid?

The Chancellor is facing calls to resign over misleading the public and Cabinet minister over the state of Britain’s finances

The Independent UK

Rachel Reeves denies lying about Budget black hole to justify tax hikes – UK politics live

Rachel Reeves denies breaking Labour manifesto pledge not to raise taxes – but admits she is asking people to pay more

The Independent UK

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 Guardian - UK

Welcome to the half-real, half-fantasy world that is ‘the day after the budget’

This is the day when politicians and amateur commentators talk more doggybollox than on any other day of the year

The Guardian - UK

‘Mortified’ OBR chair hopes inquiry into budget leak will report next week

Reuters news agency says it obtained document after visiting URL it predicted file would be uploaded to

Evening Standard

Budget 2025: Rachel Reeves to hammer London in tax grab on wealthy homeowners and millions of workers

The Chancellor’s plans will also see 260,000 children in the capital benefit from the lifting of the two-child welfare cap

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