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Starmer: Budget will ’embrace harsh light of fiscal reality’

The Prime Minister will warn of ‘unprecedented’ economic challenges as he delivers a speech on Monday.

Evening Standard · Oct 27, 2024

Keir Starmer will ‘embrace harsh light of fiscal reality’ ahead of Budget

The prime minister will warn of ‘unprecedented’ economic challenges as he delivers a speech in the West Midlands today

The Independent UK · Oct 27, 2024

Strictly Come Dancing's Amy Dowden ‘feeling better’ after being taken to hospital

The Welsh dancer could not compete in the BBC dance competition last year because she was undergoing treatment for breast cancer.

Evening Standard · Oct 27, 2024

The long-awaited Labour budget needs to show the party knows what to do with power

A strategy of raising taxes, spending and borrowing all at the same time to fund investment has risks, but it has a logic too

The Guardian - UK · Oct 27, 2024

Scottish Government warns Labour Budget could cost NHS Scotland 2000 nurses

THE UK Government’s upcoming Budget could cost NHS Scotland “2000 nurses”, the Scottish Government has warned ...

The National (Scotland) · Oct 27, 2024

Feel it in your bones: taking the pain out of osteoporosis

More than half the women in the UK over the age of 50 will suffer a fracture. But can more awareness – and some heavy lifting – help us beat many of the effects of osteoporosis?

The Guardian - UK · Oct 27, 2024

Budget will bring ‘era of growth’ for Scotland, vows Murray

The Scottish Secretary was speaking ahead of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s spending statement on Wednesday.

Evening Standard · Oct 26, 2024

Rachel Reeves has promised not to raise taxes, so how can she fill budget coffers?

Chancellor said to be planning measures including raising employer NI contributions and capital gains tax rates. We consider the likelihood of each and the potential for a row

The Guardian - UK · Oct 26, 2024

The week in audio: Surviving Politics With Michael Gove; In the Studio; Up in Smoke; Unfit for Service – review

The ex-Tory minister talks shop; artist Jonny Banger enthuses about his activism; Mei Mac and Adam Buxton lift a spooky drama; and a harrowing look at the US military’s attitudes to homosexuality

The Guardian - UK · Oct 26, 2024

The sickness trap: how Barnsley has tried to fight back against worklessness

Leaders of the town, which has some of UK’s highest levels of economic inactivity, are hoping for help from Rachel Reeves’s budget

The Guardian - UK · Oct 26, 2024