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Budget at a glance: What has Rachel Reeves announced?

Here, the PA news agency looks at the tax rises and cost-of-living measures in Wednesday’s Budget.

The Independent UK

Reeves ‘targets tax raid on employee pension contributions at Budget’

The move would offer a small boost to the battered public finances, mostly affecting high earners

The Independent UK

Kemi Badenoch calls for Rachel Reeves to get the sack if she raises taxes

The Tory leader will demand that the chancellor ‘get the axe if she puts up tax’

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Reeves admits she’s looking at tax rises and spending cuts in Budget

The chancellor blamed Brexit for the move, saying it has had a ‘severe’ impact on the public finances

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Rachel Reeves looking to tighten inheritance tax rules as Chancellor scrambles to fix UK's ailing finances

The Chancellor is examining whether to harden the rules on the gifting of money and assets ahead of the Autumn Budget

Evening Standard

A year of Keir: the first 365 days of Starmer in power

Three trade deals, five U-turns, 2.5 per cent of GDP on defence, eight ministerial resignations, 49 welfare rebels, record small boat crossings – the statistics behind Keir Starmer’s first year as prime minister explored by Alicja Hagopian and David Maddox

The Independent UK

Starmer finally bolsters Reeves after her tears in the Commons spook markets

Chaotic PMQs sees chancellor upset – reportedly after clash with speaker – as PM fields questions over black hole left by U-turn

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Rachel Reeves faces call from her local Labour party to abandon welfare cuts

In its motion opposing the plans, the Leeds West and Pudsey CLP said disabled people ‘are not responsible for the state of the national finances’.

The Independent UK

Top economist urges Reeves to raise basic rate of income tax for first time in 50 years

Institute for Fiscal Studies boss Paul Johnson warned Donald Trump’s trade war is ‘badly buffeting’ the UK economy

The Independent UK

UK commitment to free trade will be tested by US tariffs, senior MP warns

Dame Meg Hillier also said there had been ‘unrest’ among the Labour rank and file following welfare cuts announced by ministers in recent weeks.

Evening Standard

Reeves on course to be less popular than Truss mini-budget chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng

The chancellor is plunging toward the approval rating of Kwasi Kwarteng in the wake of the September 2022 financial statement

The Independent UK

Reeves’s spring statement almost as unpopular as Truss’s disastrous mini-Budget, poll finds

Just one in five voters believe Rachel Reeves is doing a good job, as chancellor’s approval rating plunges towards that of her predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng prior to him being sacked

The Independent UK

Spring statement 2025 summary: Key takeaways from benefit cuts to tax crackdowns

As the chancellor was forced to deliver a brutal spring statement due to the flatlining economy, The Independent looks at what cuts Rachel Reeves rolled out

The Independent UK

Zelensky says no US security guarantees agreed in minerals deal as Starmer heads to Washington for Trump talks

PM travelling to Washington following his weekly Commons grilling after announcing dramatic increase in UK’s war chest

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The Independent UK

Starmer to meet Trump in Washington as Kyiv and US agree minerals deal

European nations must ‘step up and do more on defence’ Rachel Reeves said after the UK pledged to raise defence spending.

Evening Standard

Heathrow third runway fails to get backing from Ed Miliband who says decision on it 'some years off'

A bigger Heathrow is enthusiastically supported by Chancellor Rachel Reeves

Evening Standard

Heathrow expansion can be done in a decade, says Rachel Reeves

The Chancellor said she wanted to see ‘spades in the ground in this parliament’.

The Independent UK

Expanding Heathrow ‘an illusion of economic growth’, says Labour donor

One of Labour’s biggest donors rubbished the plan to build another runway at Heathrow

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Evening Standard

'Call me the Iron Chancellor if you want,' says Rachel Reeves as she hits back at critics in City and Commons

Chancellor faces accusations that her Budget hit economic growth with the £25 billion hike in National Insurance on employers

The Independent UK

Key takeaways from Rachel Reeves speech in the Commons

Scrapping the universal winter fuel payment, axeing Rishi Sunak’s A-level reforms and pay rises for public sector workers were some of the measures announced

The Independent UK

Reeves rejects suggestions Hamas attack caused by Israel’s ‘occupation’ of Gaza

The shadow chancellor echoed Sir Keir Starmer in condemning the deadly ‘terrorist attack’.

The Independent UK

Jeremy Hunt hits back at Labour hypocrisy claims over HS2: ‘How’s Keir?’

Jeremy Hunt previously said going ahead with the high speed rail line was a ‘great decision’ adding: ‘No HS2 = no ambition for our country’

The Independent UK

‘Britain should be embarrassed’ it has never had a female chancellor, says Rachel Reeves as she eyes up role

Exclusive: Labour’s Rachel Reeves says she wants to ‘smash’ glass ceilings and end the gender pay gap

Daily Mirror

Four key things Labour's Rachel Reeves said in flagship speech on the economy

The Shadow Chancellor slammed the 'f*** business' Prime Minister Boris Johnson and promised to work closely with business bosses - meanwhile she refused to call a by-election in Bury South

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