The Latest Breaking News from George Osborne

Campaigners say key reason for rising hardship is two-child benefit cap, which PM and chancellor have refused to axe

Brutal cuts to council budgets have decimated museums and forced some to close. We’re at risk of losing our shared memory, writes Guardian columnist John Harris

PM to pledge to ‘leave no stone unturned’ in bid to rebuild public services and save £1.6bn over five years

PM promises to ‘leave no stone unturned’ as his government seeks to ‘rebuild our public services’

Siberian kitten at No 10 may get frosty reception from chief mouser Larry, who took on George Osborne’s cat, Freya

Means-testing will hit up to 2 million people. Rachel Reeves would be wise to admit she was wrong, says Guardian economics editor Larry Elliott

New governments usually come into power offering hope and a break with the past. This one is squandering the opportunity for a fresh start, says David Blanchflower

Liz Truss or George Osborne? For Rachel Reeves, neither is exactly her political lodestar. From a Labour perspective, the former moved far too fast with her 'mini-Budget' and in doing so sparked a run on gilts. In contrast, the latter slowly strangled the UK economy with cuts to capital spending…

THE leader of Scottish Labour has been branded “austerity Anas” after it emerged he backed £30 billion of Tory cuts while an MP – as his…