Category: Mini-budget 2022

Starmer to say Reform’s spending plans would cause a Truss-style meltdown

Nigel Farage is ‘using your family finances as a gambling chip on his mad experiment’, prime minister will sayKeir Starmer will launch an attack on Nigel Farage by accusing the Reform UK leader of promoting...

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Reeves to raise spectre of Liz Truss to persuade Labour MPs to accept cuts

Chancellor to tell party she is making steep cuts to avoid similar fallout to that which followed 2022 mini-budgetRachel Reeves will raise the spectre of Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget in the lead-up to next...

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Starmer to keep saying Truss crashed economy despite legal letter, No 10 suggests – UK politics live

PM’s spokesperson asks whether Truss ‘will write to millions of people who felt her economic record pushed their mortgage bills up’Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the Treasury, is responding to the UQ...

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Lammy dismisses Trump’s Greenland threats but sidesteps question over whether Musk comments are incitement to violence – UK politics live

Foreign secretary says Trump’s comments reflect concerns about Arctic security and says there is ‘fine line between free speech and hate speech’ when asked about MuskDarren Jones, the chief secretary to the...

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Cutting winter fuel payments ‘right decision’, says Reeves, as No 10 says no change to council tax discount for single people – Labour conference live

Chancellor says £22bn gap in current spending budget and state pension rise meant she had to make decision on means-testing fuel paymentsIn interview this morning Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, defended her own decision to...

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Rachel Reeves says cutting winter fuel payments was ‘right decision in circumstances we inherited’ – Labour conference live

Chancellor says £22m gap in current spending budget and state pension rise meant she had to make decision on means-testing fuel paymentsIn interview this morning Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, defended her own decision to...

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Rachel Reeves’s speech interrupted by protesters – Labour conference live

Protesters opposed to arms sales to Israel disrupt chancellor’s speech as she sets out Labour’s plans for UK economyIn interview this morning Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, defended her own decision to accept...

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Labour shifts poll tactics to target fearful Tory over-65s

Alarm grows over possible pension cuts as research suggests Jeremy Hunt tax cut announcement was ‘blunder’Labour is to wage a new campaign to win over Tory-supporting pensioners in an attempt to neutralise one of the...

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Labour motion to ban Truss-style budget meltdowns puts pressure on Tory MPs

Party loyalty would force Conservatives to vote against plan for fiscal responsibilityRead more: ‘I challenge Rishi Sunak: vote with Labour to stop a Truss-style disaster happening again,’ writes Rachel ReevesLabour...

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