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READ the full speech after Keir Starmer warned that the Labour government's first Budget, which is due in late October, will be "painful"…

RACHEL Reeves is reportedly planning to hike taxes and stick with Tory spending cuts as economic growth fails to ease pressure on the public…

Pensioners take the brunt of early spending cuts as Rachel Reeves delivers a brutal assessment of the nation’s finances

The Tories really did leave Britain in a fiscal hole. But austerity cannot be the remedy, writes economics and public policy professor Jonathan Portes

Several factors restrict the Labour government’s room for manoeuvre in its agenda for growth, writes Phillip Inman

RACHEL Reeves has warned she will have to make “difficult decisions” following claims from a minister that the UK's finances are "worse…

There is to be action but not a tax-and-spend splurge – just patient changes that will take time to pay off

The king’s speech has been delivered, marking the state opening of parliament (technically, this was the first king’s speech with a Labour government in 74 years). The speech was written by Keir Starmer’s government, not the king, and lays out the government’s agenda for the coming year. Here, a team…

The new government has made boosting economic growth its central goal. Chancellor Rachel Reeves wasted no time in announcing changes to the planning system designed to encourage more housebuilding and infrastructure investment.