Tag: Economy

Rachel Reeves's future as Chancellor has been thrown into doubt by Keir Starmer as he twice refused to confirm she would stay on and appointed a senior Treasury official as a top adviser amid the fallout from her Budget.

Labour loves to remind voters how Liz Truss 'crashed the economy', but Rachel Reeves is making the exact same mistake. She's asking the markets to lend the Government vast sums and they're telling her where to get off.

Bond yields are soaring to their highest levels in 30 years and sterling is sliding, but the Chancellor is nowhere to be seen. Where is Rachel Reeves and why won't she address the markets her failed Budget has spooked?

More than half of people in the U.K. receive more in benefits than they contribute in taxes, official figures show – and it's only going to get worse. No wonder we can't afford anything.

Britain’s factories cut output at the fastest rate since the Covid lockdown as Rachel Reeves’s Budget was blamed for triggering a wave of project cancellations.

Britain's Net Zero policies, such as the fast-approaching ban on non-electric cars, are a fiasco, now costing serious jobs and threatening entire regional economies, says Liam Halligan.

Rachel Reeves's National Insurance tax raid will destroy 100,000 jobs as companies are forced to lay off staff and freeze hiring, analysis by Deutsche Bank has found.

Asda's Chairman has hit out at Rachel Reeves's "very, very damaging" Budget, warning the tax rises will force the supermarket to look closely at how many workers it can afford to employ.

Households' living standards are improving at the slowest rate in more than 50 years, as soaring immigration fuels population growth and the economy stalls.

Emmanuel Macron has warned that the EU "could die" as he issued a dire warning about the bloc's economy, saying Brussels is "over-regulating and under-investing".