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Labour’s first budget in 15 years included a highly anticipated change to the so-called fiscal rules which constrain how much the government can borrow or spend. By relaxing the rules, chancellor Rachel Reeves has opened the door for additional capital spending, much of which has been earmarked for low-carbon investment.

Alex Burghart said he had wanted to come to Belfast in the four months since his appointment but has not been able to secure the money from his party.

A LABOUR MP has been told to “fact check first” by members of the public after he falsely claimed there was a sewage leak at Portobello Beach.

THE UK Government has announced plans for £1.4 billion of “direct investment” in Scotland over the next 10 years ...

ANALYSIS : Ignore the comparisons, writes Howard Mustoe – any suggestions that market concerns over Rachel Reeves’s Budget bear any similarity to the chaos that followed Liz Truss’s economic disaster are wide of the mark

TUV leader Jim Allister said MLAs were being asked to ‘surrender’ sovereignty to Brussels.

Sticking to broad platitudes and waiting for your opponent to fail is the wrong approach for a new-look Tory party, says ConservativeHome’s Henry Hill

Chancellor, on a post-budget visit to Newcastle, says ‘markets move all the time’

Darren Jones says ‘we’ve all got PTSD’ from Truss’s 2022 mini-budget, amid market jitters after this week’s budget