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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

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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’.

Evening Standard

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 Independent UK

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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 Independent 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

The Guardian - UK

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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

The Guardian - UK

Tories and Reform spout imaginary numbers as they fight for attention

Back-of-an envelope calculations by Kemi Badenoch, Mel Stride and Nigel Farage are nothing but political fever dreams

Evening Standard

Stealth tax alert: Reeves Budget to make record 10m pay Income Tax higher rate if she freezes thresholds

A further two-year freeze on Income Tax thresholds would drag 790,000 more people into paying the 40% higher rate, according to the IFS

Evening Standard

Motorists 'to be slapped with pay-per-mile tax by Rachel Reeves'

The new scheme is intended to try to close the £30 billion financial black hole the Chancellor faces in the budget at the end of the month

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The Guardian - UK

UK politics: MPs spar over response to Cambridgeshire train attack – as it happened

Lib Dem spokesperson says Reform ‘trying to exploit incident for political gain’ and shadow home secretary’s remarks are ‘beneath contempt’

The Guardian - UK

Tory patience wears thin as Badenoch’s critics count down to May elections

With the party adrift and Reform surging, Jenrick’s allies are sharpening their pitch for a post-election reset

The Guardian - UK

Kemi Badenoch smiles from the stump as she heads towards oblivion

The relaxed demeanour of the Tory leader suggests she is just relieved that things aren’t worse than they could be

Evening Standard

Treasury urged to set out plan to ‘un-gum’ housing amid call to axe stamp duty

Sir Mel Stride likened Chancellor Rachel Reeves to Captain Mainwaring from Dad’s Army.

Evening Standard

Fact check: National debt, fake wifi charges and the cost of rebuilding Gaza

Round-up of fact checks from the last week compiled by Full Fact.

The Independent UK

UK facing highest inflation in G7 in yet another pre-Budget blow for Reeves

IMF also trims growth forecast for 2026 in ‘grim’ news for chancellor weeks before Commons statement

The Independent UK

Farage to give up Reform’s manifesto pledge for £90bn in tax cuts

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage will promise not to reduce taxes before cutting spending and making savings in the civil service at a major speech next month

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