Reeves refuses to rule out further business tax rises Chancellor under pressure as Starmer shifts focus to higher living standards The Independent UK · Dec 3, 2024
Reeves repeatedly declines to guarantee no more borrowing or tax rises At Treasury questions on Tuesday, Rachel Reeves was asked multiple times to re-commit to her earlier pledge on taxes. Evening Standard · Dec 3, 2024
New Covid corruption chief to leave ‘no stone unturned’, Reeves warns Tom Hayhoe has been appointed to to claw back taxpayers’ money wasted on deals during the pandemic. Evening Standard · Dec 3, 2024
MPs back PR bill in vote, a symbolic win for electoral reform campaigners – as it happened MPs vote to give leave to bring in private members’ bill on PR but it will have no practical effect The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2024
Chancellor appoints Covid corruption commissioner Tom Hayhoe has started a review of £8.7 billion worth of PPE bought during the pandemic. Evening Standard · Dec 3, 2024
George Osborne is a walking ad for a wealth tax. Labour should target the inheritocracy ‘Tax wealth, not work’ would be a powerful message for Starmer and Reeves – are they bold enough to pursue it, asks Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2024
Scottish ministers mull tax rise for wealthy amid tricky budget decisions Finance secretary must find way to bring either Greens or Lib Dems onboard while plugging possible £200m shortfall The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2024
Rachel Reeves appoints Covid corruption commissioner Exclusive: Tom Hayhoe will examine an estimated £7.6bn of Covid-related fraud The Guardian - UK · Dec 2, 2024
Rachel Reeves under pressure to scrap £2k electric car tax It comes amid mounting concern over how the car industry will cope with current plans to boost the number of electric vehicles The Independent UK · Dec 2, 2024
It is ‘obvious’ HS2 should extend into Euston, says rail minister Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill was speaking as he revealed two new tunnel boring machines. Evening Standard · Dec 2, 2024
More than half of Britons would support a farmers strike, poll shows Voters back workers in the under-fire farming sector walking out on strike, viewing them as among the groups worst treated by Sir Keir Starmer’s government The Independent UK · Dec 2, 2024
Rachel Reeves's sister to attend Cabinet in Labour's latest nepo move RACHEL Reeves’s sister Ellie will now attend Cabinet in a coup for the dynastic wing of the Labour Party ... The National (Scotland) · Dec 2, 2024
Eurozone manufacturers see ‘no sign of recovery’ as UK orders slow France, Germany and Austria are especially hard hit, as British factory owners cut jobs and investment The Guardian - UK · Dec 2, 2024
Confusion grows over Labour’s economic plan as minister refuses to rule out sidelining growth pledge Alex Norris was repeatedly pressed on whether the government planned to sideline the PM’s pledge to make the UK the fastest growing economy in the G7 The Independent UK · Dec 2, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Dec 2, 2024 NHS bosses reportedly worried about Starmer’s pledge to cut waiting lists PM expected to set target to carry out 92% of routine operations and appointments within 18 weeks
The Guardian - UK · Dec 2, 2024 Growth expectations among UK firms take ‘decisive turn for worse’, says CBI Expectations negative for first time in 2024 as business confidence plummets since Rachel Reeves’s budget
The Independent UK · Dec 1, 2024 Britain sets aside £10bn for future payments to EU more than eight years after Brexit vote Exclusive: To cover the continuing costs of Britain’s divorce from Europe, the government has accounted for £20.6bn in future payments for Brussels staff and diplomats’ pensions, as well as the UK’s pre-existing financial obligations
The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2024 Labour’s big relaunch won’t solve its biggest problem: this government doesn’t speak human Farage and Trump are winning because they understand the politics of emotion, while Labour is lost in numbers and statistics, says Guardian columnist John Harris
The Independent UK · Dec 1, 2024 Starmer warned a UK-US trade deal would ‘destroy Britain’s family farms and food standards’ Warning comes as farmers prepare to descend on Westminster for a second time to protest planned changed to inheritance tax rules
The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2024 UK business confidence at lowest level since pandemic after tax-raising budget Institute of Directors says hit to private sector will undermine growth and public finances
The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2024 Another election? Mr Caine is taking the Michael Yes Labour have been taxier and spendier than their manifesto implied, but actors signing an Elon Musk-supported petition is a sinister step
The Guardian - UK · Nov 30, 2024 Starmer to pledge cuts to NHS waiting lists and crime in major reset for Labour Ambitious targets to improve voters’ lives come amid plunging approval ratings for government and loss of transport secretary
The Guardian - UK · Nov 30, 2024 We need to talk about capitalism. Why won’t Labour do it? The government has its five missions. But the deeper cause of Britain’s malaise is the unhealthy and unhappy nature of the modern eceonomy
The Independent UK · Nov 30, 2024 Voices: Blairites are in despair over Keir Starmer’s flailing leadership COMMENT: A person close to the former PM said the current government is like a bunch of unimaginative ‘librarians and academics’ but, writes John Rentoul, for some Starmer is not just a librarian or an academic but a funeral director
The Guardian - UK · Nov 29, 2024 Rachel Reeves is wrong to say there was no alternative to her tax-raising budget Letters: Wealth taxes would be more worker-friendly than raising employers’ NI contributions, write Anne Gray and Clive Needle, while John Digney advocates taxing land values