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Chancellor Rachel Reeves will make history as the first female chancellor to present the UK Budget on Wednesday (30 October).

Badenoch and Jenrick appeal to worst instincts of Tory members, though few seem to care about what is clearly a temporary appointment

Ministers have promised new funding for NHS infrastructure in the Budget

The general recent trend for mortgage rates has been downward following the highs experienced two years ago in the wake of former prime minister Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-Budget

The Chancellor’s shock stamp duty announcement was that the surcharge on second or buy-to-let homes will rise

London Councils are facing a £700million blackhole driven by skyrocketing homelessness

The glitch means that savers are not having their tax-free allowances applied

When Praful Nargund stood against Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North at the July general election, I heard several confident predictions about why the moderate and business-savvy candidate favoured by Keir Starmer’s ruthlessly disciplined machine would promptly see off Jeremy Corbyn – the Old Testament prophet of doomful state socialism in…

It brings another headache for the chancellor as she looks to raise taxes in Wednesday’s Budget