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Budget

December 2024

  • A Shoe Zone sign outside a store

    Shoe Zone blames tax rises in budget for decision to close some stores

  • The chancellor Rachel Reeves shows the red budget box outside Downing Street, in London before announcing her first budget

    Voters broadly accept Reeves’s £40bn of tax rises, research shows

  • Bridget Phillipson

    The Guardian view on reforming special needs education: a demanding test for ministers

  • Keir Starmer in the Chambers

    The civil service grew under the Tories. Can Starmer reduce it without further harming morale?

  • A quick-fix way for Rachel Reeves to tax the wealthy

  • UK job vacancies fall at fastest rate since pandemic as business confidence slumps

  • Scottish ministers mull tax rise for wealthy amid tricky budget decisions

  • Growth expectations among UK firms take ‘decisive turn for worse’, says CBI

  • UK business confidence at lowest level since pandemic after tax-raising budget

November 2024

  • The chancellor of the exchequer with the red budget box at Downing Street in October.

    We need to talk about capitalism. Why won’t Labour do it?

    Phillip Inman
  • Farmers protesting against inheritance tax in Whitehall, central London, on 19 November.

    Inheritance tax on farms should be delayed to avoid unfairness, says thinktank

  • Rachel Reeves smiling in a crowd

    Politics Weekly UK
    ‘No alternative’: is Rachel Reeves channelling Thatcher? – Politics Weekly Westminster

  • Tractor on Whitehall during farmers' protest

    Rachel Reeves standing firm against U-turn on inheritance tax for farmers

  • Budget blamed for first contraction in private sector for a year

  • Large parts of adult social care market in England face collapse, thinktank warns

  • UK environment secretary vows to ensure farmers are paid fairly for produce

  • Politics Weekly UK
    Starmer and the farmer’s revolt – Politics Weekly UK

  • Rayner announces plan to tighten up right to buy council homes in England

  • Lidl warns of price rises and HMV of job cuts amid backlash over UK budget

  • Nils Pratley on finance
    Retailers deserve a break – but they shouldn’t look to the chancellor for one

    Nils Pratley
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