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Local services to get £240m funding boost to ‘get Britain working’

Sir Keir Starmer said the Budget would allocate £240 million to local services to get people back into work.

Evening Standard · Oct 28, 2024

From tax cuts to breaking the economy: five UK budgets that made a difference

As Rachel Reeves prepares to unveil her measures, we look at how five of her predecessors broke the mould

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2024

Voices: When Rachel Reeves delivers her Budget today, please don’t talk about what she’s wearing

COMMENT: Can we please all keep our eyes firmly on our first female chancellor’s fiscal cuts rather than her physical appearance? Not likely, says Claire Cohen

The Independent UK · Oct 28, 2024

British firms with a combined £2.6 billion in revenue are considering fleeing the country, fearing fresh tax hikes in the budget

Rachel Reeves will announce the highly anticipated budget on Wednesday, expected to include tax hikes for high-earners, employers, and entrepreneurs.

Fortune · Oct 28, 2024

Watch: Starmer warns Britain faces ‘unprecedented challenges’ ahead of Budget

Watch as Sir Keir Starmer warned that Britain faces "unprecedented challenges" in a speech on Monday, 28 October, ahead of Labour's first Budget for 14 years.

The Independent UK · Oct 28, 2024

'Duped': Anas Sarwar pledges end of austerity – despite Budget of cuts and tax rises

THE​ Labour Government Budget “will end the era of austerity”, Anas Sarwar has claimed – on the same day as the Prime Minister warned that…

The National (Scotland) · Oct 28, 2024

Budget ‘most honest’ in years, Cabinet minister claims

Pat McFadden said Rachel Reeves’ first Budget will ‘end the fiscal fiction of things being announced which had no money set aside for them’.

Evening Standard · Oct 28, 2024

Budget 2024: Keir Starmer hit with growing row over billions in tax rises 'breaking' Labour manifesto

Cabinet minister Pat McFadden denies Labour ‘misled’ voters during the election campaign

Evening Standard · Oct 28, 2024

Lindsay Hoyle criticises chancellor Rachel Reeves for early disclosure of budget details – UK politics live

Speaker of the House of Commons says it is ‘evident’ Reeves made significant policy announcements in the media, rather than parliament

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2024

Rachel Reeves’s first budget offers a chance to break out of the doom loop. Here’s how she should do it

It’s a tall order but Labour has a chance to improve people’s lives in both the short and long term, says economics and public policy professor Jonathan Portes

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2024