The Latest Breaking News from Rachel Reeves

Starmer sails through PMQs as Badenoch fails to get out of the blocks again

It’s almost as if KemiKaze herself believes Labour’s mantra that the Tories are the source of all hopelessness

The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2025

Reeves defends Labour’s £40bn tax rise as businesses prepare for NICs hike

Chancellor says autumn budget enabled £25bn of extra investment into NHS and shorter waiting lists

The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2025

UK not ‘out of the woods’ on tariff hit even if deal is done with Trump – Reeves

The Chancellor said the UK would not indulge in ‘posturing’ over a possible response to Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Evening Standard · Apr 2, 2025

Keir Starmer Just Took Power — But Does He Even Know What to Do With It?

This is normal party discontentment. It grows over the course of a parliament, becoming critical at the point when rebel numbers threaten the leader’s

The Fashion Central · Apr 2, 2025

Starmer ‘offers US tech firms tax cut’ in last-ditch bid to dodge Trump tariffs

PM scrambles to strike a deal to lift the US president’s tariffs on Britain as soon as possible

The Independent UK · Apr 2, 2025

Hot cross bun shortage threat as farmers escalate their protests against ‘tractor tax'

Food producers have pledged to halt the transport of milling wheat in their latest effort to pressure the Chancellor into scrapping inheritance tax rule changes

Evening Standard · Apr 2, 2025

Keir Starmer won power without a purpose. Now he risks squandering it

Loyalists worry that the PM displays little of the engagement and dynamism required. Five years on, neither they nor voters really know him or his plan, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2025

Rachel Reeves throttling Scottish economy, experts warn

LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves has throttled Scotland’s economic growth, according to new expert analysis.

The National (Scotland) · Apr 2, 2025

What the papers say – April 2

Donald Trump’s tariff crackdown and its potential impact on the UK lead Wednesday’s front pages.

Evening Standard · Apr 2, 2025

Starmer and Reeves face grilling as Trump prepares ‘liberation day’ tariffs

Economists have warned US tariffs could wipe out the Chancellor’s ‘headroom’ against her debt rules, requiring more cuts or tax rises.

Evening Standard · Apr 1, 2025