Impact of inheritance tax on farmers slammed DUP MP Carla Lockhart said farmers have been dealt ‘potentially a killer blow’. Evening Standard · Oct 30, 2024
Fact check: Budget 2024 claims about National Insurance, bus fares and growth Round up of fact checks about the Autumn Budget 2024, compiled by Full Fact. Evening Standard · Oct 30, 2024
Leaderless Tories can’t comment on biggest Budget for three decades The Tories said the party wouldn’t be making detailed comments on the fiscal event The Independent UK · Oct 30, 2024
Rachel Reeves didn’t scare the markets. But nor did she impress with a growth plan Businesses adopt a wait-and-see response as it becomes clear the autumn budget is part of a long-term missionBusinesses react to The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2024
Reeves accused of betraying small family firms with inheritance tax rises Chancellor also criticised for letting the very rich off the hook with a lower than expected rise in capital gains tax The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2024
The Guardian view on Labour’s choices: emphasising a big state amid economic challenges Editorial: The budget favours increased public spending and taxation, contrasting with Tory austerity. However, there were missed opportunities to address poverty and inequality The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2024
Labour wants to reverse decline – but with a big budget comes a big risk The government knows cynical voters will need to see tangible change in public services and to feel better off The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2024
‘That’s two people we won’t hire now’: bosses react to Reeves’s tax rises Employers say they will be counting costs of budget amid increases to national insurance contributions The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2024
Budget 2024: Key takeaways as Rachel Reeves reveals £40bn in tax hikes The UK’s first female chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced tax hikes that will raise an eye-watering £40bn in her historic Budget. The Independent UK · Oct 30, 2024
Chancellor announces £22.6bn cash injection for NHS in England Rachel Reeves hails biggest increase ‘outside of Covid’ since 2010 but health experts say patients may not feel impact The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2024
Nigel Farage ‘thrilled’ to save ‘over £1 a week’ on beer after Budget The Reform UK leader said Rachel Reeves had become ‘fund manager of the nation’ after Wednesday’s Budget. The Independent UK · Oct 30, 2024
Rachel Reeves gambles on £40bn tax rise in her first Budget With a £40bn hike, Rachel Reeves delivered the highest level of tax increases ever announced in a Budget, but questions remain as to whether her measures will deliver the economic growth she hopes for The Independent UK · Oct 30, 2024
Budget 2024: what it means for you How the chancellor’s changes to tax, benefits and pensions will affect your personal finances – we look at a range of scenarios The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2024
Extra billions for schools in England will be quickly swallowed up, say experts The roughly £9bn unveiled in budget expected to disappear rapidly due to rising costs and years of underinvestment The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2024 Reeves offers few laughs and no great surprises in budget speech – but austerity it isn’t The chancellor played to packed Labour benches as the party relished its first budget in 15 years
The Independent UK · Oct 30, 2024 Historical benchmarks and milestones in Rachel Reeves’ first Budget Government investment is forecast to reach the highest sustained level since the 1970s.
The Independent UK · Oct 30, 2024 NHS receives major Budget boost but ‘lacklustre’ social care settlement will hit councils, experts warn Government’s Budget settlement for the NHS will not ‘drastically improve care’ this year, experts say
Evening Standard · Oct 30, 2024 Reeves uses first Budget to hike taxes, increase borrowing and boost spending Chancellor Rachel Reeves used Labour’s first budget since 2010 to put extra money into public services but sent taxes to a post-war high.
Evening Standard · Oct 30, 2024 First-year tax rates for petrol, diesel and hybrid cars set to rise following Budget First-year VED rates will increase by more than double after the announcement.
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Evening Standard · Oct 30, 2024 Budget 2024 calculator: How will Chancellor Rachel Reeves' statement affect you? Our ready reckoner calculator will allow you to work out whether you are better or worse off
The Independent UK · Oct 30, 2024 Firms ‘set to pass on most of higher tax costs to employees through lower wages’ The Office for Budget Responsibility said it assumes that firms will ‘pass on most but not all of their higher tax costs to employees’.
Marie Claire · Oct 30, 2024 What does the Autumn Budget mean for women? Everything you need to know about Rachel Reeves’ Autumn Budget 2024 and what it means for you
The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2024 ‘A private jet to, say, California?’: Rachel Reeves’s best budget day jokes Chancellor poked fun at Rishi Sunak, Kemi Badenoch and Kwasi Kwarteng in a budget tradition
The Conversation · Oct 30, 2024 The UK plans to rebuild its crumbling classrooms – but it should take this chance to transform the school environment Chancellor Rachel Reeves has pledged £1.4 billion to meet a target of rebuilding 50 schools in England a year. The funding boost follows the news of slow progress on the government’s school rebuilding programme. This effort began in 2020 but has been under particular scrutiny since the closure of school…