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Spring statement 2025

31 March 2025

  • Wind turbines in front of the Stanlow oil refinery in Runcorn, Cheshire, on 26 February 2025.

    Labour has sidelined essential green policies

    Letters: Caroline Lucas thinks advancing the climate and nature bill is vital, while Colin Hines and Alison Downes say an expanded warm homes plan could generate jobs

30 March 2025

  • nurse caring for a senior patient

    Vulnerable patients will lose vital support with Pip cuts

  • John Harris

    Labour’s historic attack on disabled people is already wrecking lives. Just ask Kevin

    John Harris
  • A correspondent from HM Revenue and Customs on headed paper

    Prosecution of people who help clients evade tax in UK falls by 75% in five years

  • William Keegan

    William Keegan's in my view
    The poor don’t need Reeves’s austerity. And neither does Britain

    William Keegan

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

  • Ella Baron on the spring statement, and Labour’s broken pledges – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ella Baron on the spring statement and Labour’s broken pledges – cartoon

    Rachel Reeves blamed ‘global uncertainty’ for a number of deep cuts, including to the benefits budget

27 March 2025

  • Mother and young child looking out of window.

    The Guardian view on child poverty: Labour must advance from a bleak base

  • 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

  • Rachel Reeves after Wednesday’s spring statement.

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

  • Ben Jennings on the spring statement and child poverty – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ben Jennings on the spring statement and child poverty – cartoon

  • Business live
    Carmaker shares slide after Trump’s 25% tariff; British Steel proposes closing Scunthorpe blast furnaces – as it happened

  • The politics sketch
    The one where everyone piles in on Rachel. Someone get her an espresso

    John Crace

  • Reeves’s statement will leave poorest £500 a year worse off, thinktank finds

  • First Edition newsletter
    Thursday briefing: Rachel Reeves cuts to balance the books – but at what cost?

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

    Gaby Hinsliff

  • Today in Focus
    Weapons vs welfare: Rachel Reeves spring statement

  • Labour MPs condemn Rachel Reeves’s ‘unacceptable’ welfare cuts

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