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Tax and spending

29 March 2025

  • British prime minister Keir Starmer has already been warned by the Liberal Democrats against ‘appeasing’ Donald Trump with big tax cuts for US tech companies

    Keir Starmer urged to get tough with Trump as US tariff threat looms

    PM told to be as robust as Canada with the US president as the UK stages last-ditch talks to strike trade deal
  • Rachel Reeves stands up to deliver her spring statement to MPs.

    The Observer view on the spring statement: Rachel Reeves balanced the books – but at whose expense?

    Here was a successful economic strategy in the making, marred by its abdication of responsibility to some of society’s weakest
  • Demonstrators stage a rally outside the Treasury on March 25.

    From more tax to rewriting budget rules: six alternative ways Rachel Reeves could raise money

    The chancellor has been slated by politicians, the public and campaigners for pushing ahead with brutal welfare cuts – but there were other options

28 March 2025

  • George Monbiot

    How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it

    George Monbiot
  • Andy Beckett

    Keir Starmer is one of Labour’s most rightwing prime ministers. And one of its most leftwing, too

    Andy Beckett

27 March 2025

  • Rachel Reeves in the House of Commons after delivering her spring statement

    Reeves may have to find further cuts and tax hikes amid economic gloom

    Rising costs and global uncertainty may force chancellor to turn to pensioners and wealthier taxpayers
  • A protest organised by DPAC (disabled people against cuts) and other disabilty groups outside Parliament as Rachel Reeves delivers her spring statement on 26 March 2025

    Shameless welfare cuts are a betrayal of Labour voters

    Letters: Readers express their dismay at Rachel Reeves’s spring statement, with some lifelong party members feeling no longer able to support it

    • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
      ‘Good chance’ Reeves will have to raise taxes in autumn budget, thinktank says – as it happened

    • Reeves could tax pensions and wealth if economy worsens, says IFS

    • Rachel Reeves swears this is not a return to austerity. What matters is that it feels like one

      Gaby Hinsliff

26 March 2025

  • Rachel Reeves at the dispatch box

    Rachel Reeves accused of balancing books on back of UK’s poorest

  • a late filing notice for HMRC self assessment

    Tax avoidance whistleblowers will earn share of HMRC proceeds, says Reeves

  • £10 and £20 pound notes and a blue pay slip

    Spring statement 2025: what does it mean for your finances?

  • The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, gives the spring statement in the Downing Street briefing room on 26 March 2025.

    The Guardian view on Labour’s plan for stability: austerity in disguise

  • Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ella Baron on Rachel Reeves and the sleeping lion of UK growth – cartoon

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Reeves says poverty figures from spring statement cuts don’t take into account impact of getting people into work – as it happened

  • OBR warns of Trump tariff uncertainty as it downgrades UK growth

  • Rachel Reeves does reasonable job of justifying fiscal prudence but welfare cuts cast shadow

  • The panel
    Will Rachel Reeves’s tough decisions pay off? Our panel on the spring statement

    Polly Toynbee, Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, Anna Landre, Jonathan Portes, Julia Davies, Mike Clancy and Fatima Ibrahim

  • Spring statement 2025: key points at a glance

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