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...
Read MoreChancellor 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...
Read MoreProtesters 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...
Read MoreOfficial document updated after ex-PM writes to head of civil service Simon Case calling for investigationThe government has removed a reference to Liz Truss’s mini-budget as having been “disastrous” in an...
Read MoreAlarm 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...
Read MoreParty 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...
Read MoreA year on from Liz Truss’s government’s mini-budget, we’re interested to hear how the aftermath of the event has affected UK householders in the past 12 monthsA year on from the Truss administrations’s...
Read MoreWhile former PM takes some responsibility for markets crisis after mini-budget, she says main fault lay with Bank of EnglandLiz Truss has set out her intent to be the Conservatives’ beacon for lower taxes and smaller...
Read MoreRichard Holden responds to urgent question from Labour about HS2 but refuses to say if HS2 will still reach Manchester or Euston in LondonQ: Should the Bank of England remain independent?Truss says she thinks its mandate should...
Read MoreTruss says she only learnt what pension LDIs were days after mini-budget which collapsed because of themQ: Should the Bank of England remain independent?Truss says she thinks its mandate should be improved. It should focus more...
Read MoreFormer prime minister to make remarks in speech on Monday almost a year since mini-budget that led to her downfallLiz Truss will blame the UK’s economic problems on “25 years of economic consensus” as she...
Read MoreFormer PM set to give speech defending her time in charge and explaining spending decisionsLiz Truss will claim that Rishi Sunak’s government has spent £35bn more than she would have as prime minister, in a speech on...
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