News from public finances

Rachel Reeves driving up prices with tax and spend Budget, warns Bank of England

Treasury may have broken law by failing to reveal £9.5bn spend in Tory budget, MPs told

The OBR’s damning Budget verdict gives the Tories ammunition for years

UK govt defends 'tough decisions' ahead of first budget

Hunt claims Budget watchdog will 'break impartiality' to aid case for Labour tax rises

Budget will reverse huge cuts in UK’s public investment, Reeves confirms

Britain announces major change to fiscal rules to free up billions in spending

Reeves to announce major change to fiscal rules releasing £50bn for spending

Rachel Reeves tells cabinet UK still faces £100bn black hole over next five years

Starmer vows ‘tough love’ on public finances amid tax rise fears

Labour used water industry analysis to argue against nationalisation

SDP: Finns Party is leading this government

Labour party conference 2024 live: Winter fuel raid ‘inescapable’, insists Cabinet minister

‘We must have growth — and that means working with business’

Financial leaders and party insiders warn Starmer: we need less gloom, more optimism

UK debt projected to almost triple over next 50 years, watchdog warns

Rachel Reeves signals first budget will be painful mix of spending cuts, tax rises and higher borrowing

Defence spending cuts could be made to tackle £22bn black hole, Healey warns

Tories contributed to financial uncertainty - top civil servant

£10 million every hour. The electorate saved us from continued Conservative mismanagement, now it falls to Labour to fix the mess we’ve inherited - Progressive Britain