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Budget blow for Reeves as UK’s key economic forecast slashed

Exclusive: Budget watchdog is set to downgrade a key economic performance indicator for the UK in a move that could drive tax hikes – as chancellor tries to shift blame on to Tories

The Independent UK

Treasury ‘putting the squeeze’ on OBR over Labour growth plans amid tensions over downgrade

Rachel Reeves may have to find up to £30bn in tax rises or spending cuts if forecaster revisits expectations

The Guardian - UK

Labour is in a mess. Is there anything Starmer can do to turn things around? Our panel responds – part one

Over a year into power, Keir Starmer’s government is floundering. But it still has a large parliamentary majority and time on its side — here’s what it could do, says our first group of panelists

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New headache for Rachel Reeves as OBR expected to lower productivity forecast

Weaker growth outlook would set chancellor on course to break her fiscal rules without significant action in budget

The Guardian - UK

Government to overturn Lords bid to weaken workers’ rights Bill

The Employment Rights Bill will bring in parental leave from the first day of employment and strengthen statutory sick pay.

The Independent UK

From Dog Whistles to Disinformation, How the Far Right Is Spreading Anti-Immigration Narratives

We’ve debunked the common myths around immigration

Marie Claire

UK hit by fresh sell-off in government bond markets as pound weakens

Yield on 30-year gilts hit highest level since 1998, indicating it will cost UK more to borrow from markets

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How can the UK avoid trouble in the gilts market?

The government needs bold policies in the autumn budget that will change the narrative without startling the markets

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves is under immense pressure. She must not waste her chance to ‘go big’

Chancellor needs to reform an out-of-kilter tax system without alienating voters or spooking financial markets

The Guardian - UK

With tax speculation festering, Rachel Reeves needs to show her hand

The chancellor seems to be waiting for a clearer economic picture to emerge but that is not how government works

The Guardian - UK

Fears grow over impact of ONS data reliability on Rachel Reeves’s budget

Troubles at UK statistics body are muddying economic picture for Treasury and spending watchdog, sources warn

The Guardian - UK

Why radical tax reform may be only way for Reeves to balance the books

Size of the task remains unclear but the chancellor will have to act in the face of expected growth downgrades

The Guardian - UK

UK tax data reportedly suggests claims of non-dom exodus overblown

HMRC figures appear to indicate departure of high net worth people is in line with OBR predictions, report says

The Guardian - UK

Voices: We can’t afford to let London’s ‘golden postcodes’ go to the wall

COMMENT: A slowdown at the top end of London’s property market is the latest indicator that individuals with a high net worth are hedging their bets on Britain, says Knight Frank’s Simon Gammon. The government can no longer bank on a globally minded minority to fund massive imbalances in taxing…

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Voices: Can no one silence Nigel Farage’s latest populist dog whistle?

COMMENT: Nigel Farage’s plan to halve crime – by spending £17bn on building ‘Nightingale prisons’, jailing for life those convicted three times, and sending Britain’s worst offenders to jail in El Salvador – simply doesn’t add up. But should we be worried that neither Labour nor the Tories seem able…

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves faces gloomy autumn after borrowing overshoots

Very tough budget looms as interest rate costs on bonds drive June figure to second-highest on record

Evening Standard

Labour’s economic illiteracy is dragging us into a doom loop

A debt disaster is looming — and too many backbenchers just don’t understand the grim reality

The Conversation

Worries about the UK economy are justified, but can the government afford to gamble on raising taxes?

Gloomy economic figures have heaped more pressure on the British government and its promise to improve growth. And if that wasn’t enough, there have also been some stark warnings about public finances and the country’s ability to service its debts.

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The Independent UK

Rachel Reeves vows to take ‘the boot of regulation off the throat of businesses’ in red tape bonfire

After announcing reforms to the mortgage market, the chancellor hopes to spur economic growth with a bonfire of regulations for the City

Evening Standard

OBR boss denies forecast drove welfare cut proposals

Richard Hughes, facing the Commons Treasury Committee, rejected the suggestion the Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast was now driving policy.

The Guardian - UK

Starmer and Reeves promised honesty about public finances. Can they stay the course?

Labour is being pulled one way by a desire to cut debt and the other by slumping poll ratings. With growth nowhere to be seen, tax rises loom

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves expected to review pensions auto-enrolment

Exclusive: Announcement expected as part of series of changes outlined in chancellor’s Mansion House speech

The Independent UK

The six starkest warnings from OBR as report lays bare the perilous state of UK public finances

Here are the most stark warnings in the Office for Budget Responsibility’s report

Evening Standard

Public finances on ‘unsustainable’ path due to spending promises, says OBR

Richard Hughes told a briefing in Liverpool that the projected rise in state pension spending would contributed to growing UK national debt.

Evening Standard

OBR: Vulnerable UK faces 'daunting' threats to stability of public finances after welfare climbdown

Successive governments’ efforts to put the UK public finances have met with only “limited and temporary success” says watchdog

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