Rachel Reeves’s debt fiddle leaves her cornered on tax
Reeves rewrote the fiscal rules to allow more borrowing, then near-enough maxed it out, ramping up spending by £70bn and ...
The wealthy have fled London – leaving a crisis in their wake
The damaging impact of Rachel Reeves as Chancellor continues to be revealed in every nook and cranny of the economy.
Antiques Roadshow expert gives Rachel Reeves advice – it's not good news for smokers
He’s not the only antique expert worried about leaving the European Union. Thomas Woodham-Smith, founder of the Open Art Fair ...
Opinion
Handbag expenses and a dodgy CV? What’ll it take for Starmer to ditch Reeves?
If the PM were to sack the chancellor, it would look just as bad for him as it would for her, writes Sean O’Grady. After all, none of her policies would have made the final cut without his approval ...
Treasury fears UK watchdog will give it little credit for pro-growth reforms
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is braced for a steep downgrade by the Office for Budget Responsibility to its forecasts for output ...
More than 120,000 homebuyers face tax blow from Reeves’s stamp duty raid
More than 120,000 homebuyers face a shock tax bill as they fail to beat Rachel Reeves’s stamp duty raid, new analysis ...
Opinion
Why liberating UK economy from remaining EU rules is Rachel Reeves' only hope
The latest ploy is to say that because of the likelihood of President Donald Trump introducing tariffs on EU goods, we should move closer to the EU as an act of solidarity. Well solidarity won’t ...
A ‘text message’ deal, a £450m blow and a city region left hanging
And that blow arrived just two days later when global pharmaceutical giants AstraZeneca (AZ) suddenly revealed they were ...
Four in five drivers face having to pay 'surcharge' on top of car tax in April
Government and Chancellor Rachel Reeves is being urged to change the threshold for a new tax on electric vehicles (EVs) due ...
Stamp duty tax: how much do homebuyers have to pay now?
In 2022, the threshold at which buyers started to pay stamp duty tax was raised from £125,000 to £250,000. This means that for properties priced below £250,000, no stamp duty tax is currently payable, ...
Brewdog boss just the latest to join Government waste hunt
BrewDog co-founder James Watt's ‘Shadow DOGE,’ may be just another publicity stunt but public sector reform may be the only way to ...
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The myth of a noble America
All of which is starting to feel like a problem. Consider, if you can stand the excitement, the fiscal situation we find ...