The Latest Breaking News from Rachel Reeves

Former Tory minister to advise Government on industrial strategy

The Government’s new Industrial Strategy Advisory Council will hold its first meeting on Tuesday.

Evening Standard · Dec 17, 2024

Chancellor commissions OBR forecast ahead of spring statement

The forecast, published on March 26, will be accompanied by a statement from Rachel Reeves.

Evening Standard · Dec 16, 2024

Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tax changes will put 125,000 jobs at risk, trade bodies warn

The Builders Merchants Federation latest to sign the Family Business UK open letter from 32 trade bodies representing 160,000 firms

The Independent UK · Dec 16, 2024

Economists and policy experts warn Reeves against City deregulation

Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz among 50 signatories of statement that points to risks to Labour’s wider aims

The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2024

Badenoch warns of ‘devastating’ impact of Reeves’ ‘farm tax’ on rural economy

Conservative leader will compare warning that changes could lead to 125,000 job losses to ‘the entire population of Blackburn’

The Independent UK · Dec 15, 2024

MPs consider naming Chinese ‘spy’ linked to Prince Andrew

Allegations raise calls for caution in UK over bid to re-establish China links

The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2024

Blow to Rachel Reeves as leading businessman suggests recession could be ‘around the corner’

James Reed, chairman of the recruitment giant, Reed, said there was a large drop in the number of vacancies it advertised last month

The Independent UK · Dec 15, 2024

Canal+ listing is ‘vote of confidence’ in UK stock market, says Reeves

TV channel spun off from France’s Vivendi could climb to £5bn in biggest new listing in London for two years

The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2024

‘Tractor tax’ blow to Starmer as Labour expert calls for government U-turn

Leading figure – whose analysis Starmer used to defend controversial policy – calls for inheritance tax threshold on farmers to be increased from £1m to £20m

The Independent UK · Dec 14, 2024

Brexit reset: five business leaders on how they’d like relations with the EU to change

Rachel Reeves has spoken of a reset in EU relations. Here, experts in everything from music to farming explain what they hope it will mean

The Guardian - UK · Dec 14, 2024