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Public finance

December 2024

  • Simon Jenkins

    Potholes everywhere, shoplifters rampant – today’s Britain looks as broken as it feels

    Simon Jenkins
  • Two people drinking in the beer garden outside the Old Forge pub

    State-funded UK scheme to save beloved community sites will close early

  • Rachel Reeves in front of a Christmas tree with brightly coloured baubles

    Reeves may have to U-turn over no more tax rises, warn economists

  • Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves at the Labour party conference in Liverpool.

    First Edition newsletter
    Wednesday briefing: Everything you wanted to know about the spending review (but were afraid to ask)

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Kemi Badenoch criticised by Nigerian vice president for ‘denigrating’ his country – as it happened

  • Chancellor orders ministers to submit spending plans to private sector experts

November 2024

  • Birmingham city council was among those which did not submit any data

    Watchdog refuses to sign off UK public sector accounts over unreliable data

    National Audit Office ‘disclaims’ accounts because of shortcomings in auditing of English local authorities
  • Jeremy Hunt holds up the budget red box outside No 11 Downing Street

    Treasury may have broken law by failing to reveal £9.5bn spend in Tory budget, MPs told

    Head of OBR says spending commitment would have ‘materially changed’ its forecast on Jeremy Hunt’s pre-election budget
  • Rachel Reeves

    Rachel Reeves: I was wrong on no big tax rises being needed

    UK chancellor says she had not known true picture of public finances but no need to increase taxes further after budget

October 2024

  • Rachel Reeves poses with the red box in Downing Street shortly before delivering the budget.

    First Edition newsletter
    Thursday briefing: What you need to know about Rachel Reeves’s plans for the economy

  • A rail track hugs a road snaking through the mountain, with a lake to its right and and snowcapped peaks in the background

    Reeves’s radical change to fiscal rules could go further – New Zealand shows how

  • staff go about their duties in an NHS ward

    Creaking public services are costing companies in absent staff, employers tell TUC

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    The long-awaited Labour budget needs to show the party knows what to do with power

    Larry Elliott

  • Reeves: ‘My budget will match greatest economic moments in Labour history’

  • One in four English councils ‘may seek bankruptcy bailout in next two years’

  • First Edition newsletter
    Thursday briefing: The £40bn funding gap, £22bn ‘black hole’ and more tricky terms, explained

  • First Edition newsletter
    Tuesday briefing: How Keir Starmer pitched his vision of Britain to big business

  • Economics viewpoint
    Labour’s challenge is complicated by the triumph of finance. That’s bad news for UK plc

    Larry Elliott

  • Eton among elite private schools set to cash in on windfall from new VAT rules

  • Labour warned £22bn shortfall will last years without higher taxes or cuts

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