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The Office for Budget Responsibility has halved the UK growth forecast for 2025 from 2% to 1%, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said. However, the...

Rachel Reeves has delivered her much anticipated spring statement today. The chancellor’s statement is not a formal budget – as Labour pledged to only...

Rachel Reeves is delivering her spring statement. Keep refreshing this page for the latest updates. The chancellor’s statement is not a formal budget –...

The Office for Budget Responsibility has halved the UK growth forecast for 2025 from 2% to 1%, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said. It comes...

👉Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne’s on your podcast app👈 It’s spring statement day – a bigger day than the Treasury probably ever...

Rachel Reeves will unveil further welfare cuts in her spring statement after being told the reforms announced last week will save less than planned,...

Rachel Reeves will keep her remarks short when she delivers the spring statement today. But the enormity of what she is saying will be...

Remember “securonomics”? It was the buzzword Rachel Reeves gave to her economic philosophy back before the election. The idea was that in the late...

Thousands of new homes in England will be built as part of a £2bn plan to boost social and affordable house building, the government...

Rachel Reeves has pushed back at suggestions ministers are considering ending universal free school meals for primary school children. The chancellor said she did...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is poised to deliver an update on the health of the British economy on Wednesday. The spring statement is not a...

Sir Keir Starmer is focused on a “durable peace”, Downing Street has said, after Donald Trump’s envoy to Ukraine dismissed his “coalition of the...

Sir Keir Starmer has rejected the idea of creating a minister for men to combat some of the issues raised in the hit Netflix...

The government is telling local councils they must publish data on how many potholes they have fixed or risk losing their share of an...

The chancellor’s update on the economy next week is not going to be an emergency budget in its truest sense. But it will be...

Ousted Reform MP Rupert Lowe has said Nigel Farage must “never be prime minister” after leaked messages came to light reigniting the party’s internal...

The government can’t “shrug its shoulders” and pretend the welfare system is “progressive”, Sir Keir Starmer has said, as he again defended his benefit...

“Almost every” council the Conservatives won in 2021 could be lost in this year’s local elections, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has conceded. Speaking at...

Sir Keir Starmer has boarded a nuclear-armed submarine as it returned from a lengthy patrol – in a rare showcasing of the UK’s nuclear...