ALEX BRUMMER: The Office for Budget Responsibility must be stripped of its powers or all our wallets will suffer

found 2025 › Mar › 27 (Thu) @ 06:45 UTC

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ALEX BRUMMER: Of all the blunders Rachel Reeves has made since becoming Chancellor, none has been greater than her empowerment of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

STEPHEN GLOVER: This is the most mendacious Government of my lifetime - and Rachel Reeves is the most dishonest minister of all

found 2025 › Mar › 27 (Thu) @ 06:45 UTC

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All governments are dishonest. But I don't believe there have been any in my lifetime so consistently mendacious as this one - and I don't exclude Tony Blair 's.

Backbench revolt grows over 'cruel' benefit cuts that could push families of 50,000 more children into poverty

found 2025 › Mar › 27 (Thu) @ 06:45 UTC

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MPs lined up to round on Chancellor Rachel Reeves in the Commons after her Spring Statement.

BBC Verify: How did Rachel Reeves make her sums add up?

found 2025 › Mar › 26 (Wed) @ 19:45 UTC

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BBC Verify's Ben Chu looks at how the Chancellor managed to stick to her fiscal rules in the Spring Statement, despite a jump in borrowing costs for the Government.

From welfare cuts to Trump tariffs: 7 takeaways from the UK spring statement

found 2025 › Mar › 26 (Wed) @ 17:46 UTC

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Social security cuts, a Whitehall squeeze — and a (future) silver lining on growth. POLITICO sat through Rachel Reeves’ spring statement so you didn’t have to.

Spring statement: Reeves blames ‘global uncertainty’ for deeper spending cuts

found 2025 › Mar › 26 (Wed) @ 17:46 UTC

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Chancellor says tougher measures required to plug fiscal hole after Treasury watchdog halves 2025 growth forecast

Spring statement: key points
Analysis: Reeves does reasonable job of justifying fiscal …

Will Rachel Reeves’s tough decisions pay off? Our panel on the spring statement

found 2025 › Mar › 26 (Wed) @ 17:46 UTC

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The chancellor boosted defence spending while piling on further welfare cuts – all set against gloomy growth forecasts

The six best EVs that dodge Rachel Reeves' electric car tax raid from April - saving buyers over £2,000

found 2025 › Mar › 26 (Wed) @ 17:46 UTC

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The Chancellor's car tax sting on EVs from 1 April will have major cost implications for buyers of new battery cars costing over £40k. Here's six of the best options below that price point.

Countdown to Rachel Reeves' April Fools tax bomb! Brits face fallout from hikes in council tax, NICs, IHT, vehicle duty and energy bills ... and maybe Trump tariffs to come

found 2025 › Mar › 26 (Wed) @ 17:46 UTC

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Council tax and energy bills are set to go up from April 1, adding to the cost of running a home, even before Rachel Reeves gave her Spring Statement.

Civil service faces £2bn cuts with '50,000 jobs to go' as Rachel Reeves fights to balance books... but it will STILL be bigger than before Brexit vote

found 2025 › Mar › 26 (Wed) @ 17:46 UTC

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves is telling departments to cut their admin budgets - such as for HR, policy advice and office management - by 15 per cent.