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Downing Street says Reeves’ remarks were ‘entirely accurate’ as pressure grows over claims she misled voters

Sir Keir will use a speech to support the decisions taken by Ms Reeves in the Budget

Opposition figures have called for the City watchdog to investigate pre-Budget briefings about the fiscal shortfall.

COMMENT: A dour, droning speech from Jeremy Corbyn was the least of Your Party’s worries on day one of their Liverpool conference, writes Kat Brown. It will go down in history as a parody of car-crash politics

BUDGET 2025: Labour will need the Budget to go down well with swing voters in areas such as Sheerness and Kensington if the party is to stand a chance of holding onto power at the next general election. Dan Haygarth and Hebe Campbell spoke to locals to see if they…

Washington’s Putin-appeasing plan for peace in Ukraine has failed, but many heard death knell sounded for European reliance on US protection

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The six-month qualifying period for protection from unfair dismissal is a step in the right direction, which should have been taken long ago – but this dangerous habit of breaking manifesto pledges is compounding a crisis of trust in politics

After last year’s tax-raising budget, UK chancellor Rachel Reeves assured the public that Labour had “wiped the slate clean” and would not be coming back for more. And yet this year, the chancellor froze tax thresholds and introduced several other tax-raising measures in a budget that was called “brutal” even…

Prime Minister Keir Starmer thinks that racism is returning to British society. He has accused Nigel Farage’s Reform UK of sowing “toxic division” with its “racist rhetoric”.

UK had been pushing to join €150bn Safe fund, a loan scheme that is part of bloc’s drive to rearm Europe

Labour can proudly say this was a budget for working people – that is, if your job happens to be prime minister, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde