Housing market slows amid fears Reeves will increase property taxes Post-summer bounce in activity fails to materialise as buyers and sellers, in the south especially, opt to ‘wait and see’ The Guardian - UK · Oct 19, 2025
Major pension funds and insurers launch new partnership to help drive growth The Sterling 20 will be established at the Regional Investment Summit in Birmingham on Tuesday. Evening Standard · Oct 19, 2025
Holidays will cost more if taxes are hiked in Budget, say travel bosses Rachel Reeves has acknowledged she is looking at potential tax rises and spending cuts in her Budget on November 26. Evening Standard · Oct 19, 2025
Travel bosses issue holiday cost warning over Rachel Reeves’s tax proposals Jet2 and Tui bosses have warned tax rises could make holidays too costly for some The Independent UK · Oct 19, 2025
How thousands in London could be hit with new council tax bands under Rachel Reeves budget plans Affluent people in the capital are rumoured to be among the main targets for the new taxes Evening Standard · Oct 19, 2025
Betfred says gambling tax rise in budget will force it to shut all its UK shops Levies thought to be under consideration will kill profits, say bosses, as gambling firms ramp up lobbying efforts The Guardian - UK · Oct 19, 2025
Scottish hospitality coalition urges chancellor to protect whisky industry Exclusive: letter to Rachel Reeves from drinks, tourism and farming bodies calls for freeze on spirits duty in budget The Guardian - UK · Oct 19, 2025
Betfred says it could be forced to close all its shops in face of gambling tax hikes Betfred’s CEO said the odds of closing up shop are ‘10 to one against’ on high streets across the UK and Ireland Evening Standard · Oct 19, 2025
Cheat the Week: Reeves admits she’s mulling tax rises and spending cuts This week’s biggest news stories in review, and how the media has covered them Evening Standard · Oct 19, 2025
Brexit impact on UK economy will be negative for foreseeable future, Bailey warns The Bank of England governor, speaking at the G30 International Banking Seminar, highlighted a decline in the UK’s potential growth rate. The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2025
Ed Miliband needs a plan for industry – without it, the move to net zero could ruin UK manufacturing Manufacturing is buckling under sky-high energy bills. Time to closely regulate price-gouging gas plants or take ownership of supply The Guardian - UK · Oct 18, 2025
Unions warn Reeves they could abandon Labour if she ‘panders to the right’ with more welfare cuts Exclusive: FBU general secretary Steve Wright has warned that there is growing pressure on unions to disaffiliate from Labour ending political donations The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2025
Government spends £115,000 on ‘influencer marketing’ in less than a year Minister said cash supported ‘multiple campaigns’, but Tories say it ‘makes a mockery’ of spending pledges The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2025
Evening Standard · Oct 18, 2025 New £700m addition to London Overground 'would be renamed to reflect area's culture and history' Sadiq Khan confirms that his rebranding of the Overground — dubbed ‘virtue-signalling nonsense’ by critics — would be extended to the West London Orbital
Evening Standard · Oct 18, 2025 Business news in brief: Inflation and borrowing figures on the horizon The Big Shorts: Latest business news in brief and next week in The City
The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2025 Chancellor says she ‘can’t leave welfare untouched’ this parliament as budget looms Rachel Reeves understood to be eyeing cuts to Motability scheme as she tries to plug hole in country’s finances
Evening Standard · Oct 17, 2025 Reeves: Welfare cannot be left ‘untouched’ in Budget An attempt to push through cuts to benefits earlier this year led to an embarrassing last-minute U-turn for the Government.
The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2025 ‘A foot out in the cold’: leaders huddle at IMF as icy economic winds blow Worries over private credit, tax and spend, skittish bond markets and tariff chaos dominate meeting in Washington
The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2025 Rachel Reeves plots £1bn cut to Motability scheme which lets disability claimants access cars The scheme provides cars and tax breaks to more than 800,000 users
The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2025 UK government borrowing costs fall to lowest level since July Boost for Rachel Reeves as bond yield falls while she considers tax rises and spending cuts in budget
The Independent UK · Oct 17, 2025 Ferrari reduces number of cars sold to the UK after non-dom tax change Luxury carmaker executive says ‘people are getting out of that country for tax reasons’
The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2025 Ferrari cuts number of cars it sends to UK after non-dom tax status scrapped Carmaker says reasons for reduction include that some wealthy people ‘are getting out of the country’
The Guardian - UK · Oct 17, 2025 Friday briefing: Is Black British history finally being remembered? In today’s newsletter: Black History Month was first celebrated in the UK in 1987 – but the learning of moments in Britain’s own civil rights struggle has been a long time coming
Benzinga · Oct 16, 2025 UK Finance Minister Seeks More Pharma Investment In Exchange For Higher Drug Prices: Report UK finance minister Rachel Reeves said the country expects increased investment from pharmaceutical companies if it agrees to raise drug prices as part of ongoing trade talks.