Rachel Reeves will not last more than a few months in office, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has said, claiming the “tired” ...

She became Britain’s first female Chancellor in July against a daunting backdrop of a sluggish economy and competing demands ...

Britain has to balance “very clear” national security concerns, including over China, with being an “outwardly facing” ...

After the increase in the cap was announced in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first Budget in October 2024 ... £2 “for the whole of 2025 but subject to a mid-year review”. In West Yorkshire, the cap will ...

Rachel Reeves is facing a revolt in her own constituency, with residents complaining they feel abandoned as the area is blighted by soaring crime rates. Pudsey, part of Reeves' Leeds West and ...

Reeves doesn’t have the advantage of that generous inheritance. Jeremy Hunt may protest that she has exaggerated the awfulness of the public finances that he bequeathed her, but it is safe to ...

The chancellor campaigned for Waspi women to receive compensation when she was shadow pensions minister - and revealed that her own mother was affected by changes to the pension age. Rachel Reeves ...

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves is resisting calls from English mayors to extend their revenue-raising abilities, an awkward clash just as the government set out its plan to devolve more ...

But Rachel Reeves’s first budget stands out because it is causing the very opposite of what she set out to achieve: growth. The mantra of the Labour election campaign was that tough decisions would be ...

Rachel Reeves will bank on Labour’s Brexit reset with the European Union to help deliver the economic growth she pledged ahead of the general election. The hope that living standards can be ...