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Lower pay rises likely due to Budget tax rises, Rachel Reeves admits

The Chancellor acknowledged her decision to raise national insurance contributions for employers could impact wage growth for workers.

Evening Standard · Oct 31, 2024

Lower pay rises likely due to Budget tax increases, Rachel Reeves admits

The Chancellor acknowledged her decision to raise national insurance contributions for employers could affect wage growth for workers.

The Independent UK · Oct 31, 2024

The Standard 100: People shaping London in Politics, Security, Knife Crime, Transport and Charity

Rachel Reeves, Sadiq Khan and Richard Curtis are among the top hundred people shaping the capital in 2024

Evening Standard · Oct 31, 2024

Taxes to rise higher AGAIN in next few years and wage increases hit, warn IFS economists after Reeves Budget

The Institute for Fiscal Studies also stressed that much of the National Insurance rise on employers would feed through into smaller pay rises for workers

Evening Standard · Oct 31, 2024

‘Budget not something I want to repeat ever again’ – Reeves

The Chancellor defended her first fiscal announcement and said she does not want to repeat the £40 billion tax rises she implemented.

Evening Standard · Oct 31, 2024

Post-budget sell-off of government bonds by worried City traders intensifies, pushing up UK borrowing costs – as it happened

Institute for Fiscal Studies says increasing borrowing to fund investment ‘right thing to do’

The Guardian - UK · Oct 31, 2024

‘It has a political vision’: five viewpoints on Reeves’s first budget

A retiree, a young worker, a family, a single parent and a pension saver reflect on what the changes mean for them

The Guardian - UK · Oct 31, 2024

Thursday briefing: What you need to know about Rachel Reeves’s plans for the economy

In today’s newsletter: They spent weeks bracing the country for ‘tough decisions’, but in Labour’s first budget in 14 years, the chancellor adopted a slightly more optimistic tone

The Guardian - UK · Oct 31, 2024

Replacement Bakerloo line trains can be 'explored' thanks to Budget, says Sadiq Khan

Mr Khan said the Budget was ‘the best’ he’d heard as mayor, but critics say he has ‘quietly dropped’ his biggest asks

Evening Standard · Oct 31, 2024

At last, a government willing to spend – but this budget will expose it to two great dangers

The good news: more money is on the table. The problems lie around how it will be raised – and who doesn’t stand to benefit, says the Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK · Oct 31, 2024