Last week’s Budget appears to have achieved the extraordinary feat of being both radical and humdrum. The numbers were so huge they’d need to be housed in an aircraft hangar; the new ideas and fresh ...

Rachel Reeves’ inheritance tax raid on businesses will hit as many as 140,000 family firms. The Chancellor used the Budget to ...

NHS England conducted about 2 million outpatient appointments per week in 2023-24, meaning that 40,000 more appointments per ...

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Despite months of speculation from pundits, many pointing to the possibility of as much as an extra 7p on a litre of petrol, the feared rise didn’t happen. So why does our post-budget polling suggest ...

Eluned Morgan, the Welsh First Minister, has defended the UK government’s budget during FMQs ... although Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said that in some cases the threshold could in practice be about ...

The bill for government projects could soar after Rachel Reeves tore up fiscal rules to rush through a ... 6 per cent in 2025 'partly due to the direct and indirect impact of the Budget'. That is ...

Central Scotland Conservative MSP Meghan Gallacher says the changes announced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves to agricultural ...

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has pledged that winter 2024 will be the first “in three years where NHS staff are on the front line, not the picket line”. Mr Streeting also vowed Labour would rebuild ...

Britain’s wealthy are feeling the pinch following a slew of targeted tax hikes in the Labour government’s budget, with many ...

The businessman said the decision to tighten inheritance tax relief on business property is an ‘ignorant swipe at aspiration’ ...