Category: Rachel Reeves

Reeves defends Labour’s £40bn tax rise as businesses prepare for NICs hike

Chancellor says autumn budget enabled £25bn of extra investment into NHS and shorter waiting lists Rachel Reeves has defended the £40bn in tax increases in autumn’s budget as businesses brace for their impact,...

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Reeves defends £40bn tax increase in autumn budget as businesses prepare for NICs hike

Chancellor says £25bn extra investment into NHS has led to shorter waiting listsRachel Reeves has defended the £40bn in tax increases in autumn’s budget as businesses brace for their impact, saying NHS waiting...

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Reeves says hasty response to Trump tariffs could put ‘prize’ of economic deal at risk – as it happened

This blog is now closed, you can follow Donald Trump’s tariffs announcement live in our US colleagues’ live blogThere will be two urgent questions in the Commons after PMQs. At around 12.30pm a Foreign Office...

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Reeves says hasty response to Trump tariffs could put ‘prize’ of economic deal at risk – UK politics live

Chancellor says UK will respond calmly to US tariffs as Keir Starmer attempts to play down fears of trade warThere will be two urgent questions in the Commons after PMQs. At around 12.30pm a Foreign Office minister will respond...

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PMQs live: Starmer to face Badenoch as Trump tariffs loom

PM hopes to reach economic deal with US but growing numbers call for unified retaliation to US tariffsThere will be two urgent questions in the Commons after PMQs. At around 12.30pm a Foreign Office minister will respond to a...

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Starmer urged to join EU and Canada in fighting Trump with retaliatory tariffs – UK politics live

PM hopes to reach economic deal with US but growing numbers call for unified retaliation to US tariffsComments on the blog will open at 10am.Good morning. Keir Starmer is taking his last PMQs before the Easter recess at noon,...

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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 dealKeir Starmer should fight back strongly against Donald Trump if he imposes punitive tariffs on British exports, senior...

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‘Cabinet no longer feels safe’: Labour MPs criticise briefings against female ministers

Female MPs say they are unnerved by how women seem to be taking brunt of anger over government decisionsAs Keir Starmer’s cabinet gathered last week, a female minister spoke directly to the prime minister to complain about...

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

Institute for Fiscal Studies also warns Reeves over her focus on sticking with fiscal rules regardless of real world eventsIn an interview with ITV’s Good Morning Britain, Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, said she would not...

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