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UK Budget

  • Saturday, 29 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Spring Statement: what the next six months has in store for your money

    Where will the cards fall before the autumn Budget?

  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Claer Barrett
    Rachel Reeves’ Isa reforms must be designed with Gen Z in mind

    The chancellor’s plan to revolutionise retail investment needs young investors

    Parents with a  young baby pore over papers next to an open laptop on a table
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Political Fix podcast38 min listen
    Doom, gloom and not much headroom: Spring Statement

    Chancellor faces deepening welfare cuts row and prospect of fresh tax rises

  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Andy Haldane
    ‘Not being Liz Truss’ does not a growth strategy make

    In rushing its fiscal fences, the Spring Statement risks otherwise well-meaning reform being botched

    British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    UK economy
    Trump’s car tariffs pile pressure on Reeves’ new economic plan

    Office for Budget Responsibility warns a global trade war risks eliminating UK chancellor’s fiscal headroom

    Rachel Reeves is seen delivering her Spring Statement in the House of Commons
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Benefits cuts to fuel ‘recession level’ hit to UK’s poor, warns think-tank

    Chancellor has chosen to ‘concentrate the pain’ on sick and disabled, Resolution Foundation says

    Protesters demonstrate outside Downing Street against disability and welfare cuts during the Spring Statement on Wednesday
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Free LunchMartin Sandbu
    What’s the point of fiscal rules? Premium content

    Don’t let the budget rule tail wag the democratic dog

    The Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, is illuminated at night. The German flag flies atop the structure, and the glass dome is visible in the background.
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Spring Statement did not stem fiscal doom loop

    Labour’s policy mix will not break the cycle of making irreconcilable promises on tax, spending and public services

    Rachel Reeves speaking at the despatch box. Other MPs are visible behind her
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement — in charts

    UK chancellor sets out welfare cuts and departmental spending squeeze, but she may be forced to raise taxes in autumn

    A montage of pound coins and a backround of a bar chart
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Ministers play down likely rise in poverty from UK welfare cuts, says charity

    Joseph Rowntree Foundation says forecasts rely on ‘sleight of hand’ to underestimate true impact of reforms

    Protesters gather in Whitehall as Rachel Reeves leaves Downing Street to deliver her Spring Statement
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    News in-depthUK Spring Statement 2025
    Weak productivity and Trump tariffs: the chancellor remains in perilous fiscal waters

    Official forecasts show how easily Reeves’ plan could run into trouble

    Montage shows Rachel Reeves against a data backdrop
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The UK chancellor’s fiscal holding operation

    The government needs to make bold choices ahead of the autumn Budget

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves leaves No 11 Downing Street to deliver her Spring Statement.
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    News in-depthUK Spring Statement 2025
    Reeves’ repair job avoids tax increases — for now

    But government risks backlash over welfare cuts that will push tens of thousands into poverty

    Rachel Reeves
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Should Brits brace for tax rises in the Autumn Budget?

    No tax changes in the Spring Statement, but if the search for growth proves fruitless they’ll soon be back on the agenda

    Illustration of hands holding shears cutting flowers still in bud against a darkening sky
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Fresh HMRC crackdown targets late payers

    Penalties will rise with the aim of netting £1bn over the next four years

  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Reeves warned of tax rises ahead despite £14bn plan to fix public finances

    Chancellor makes cuts to welfare spending as economic forecasts slashed

    Rachel Reeves leaves No11 Downing Street ahead of her Spring Statement
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Personal finance experts react to the Spring Statement

    From another crackdown on tax collection, to Isa threats and investing in defence stocks

    Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, leaves No,11 Downing Street
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025: the chancellor’s speech in full

    Rachel Reeves’ statement to the House of Commons

  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Reeves sets out new UK defence growth board

    Chancellor confirms £2.2bn military funding rise next year in Spring Statement

    A soldier aims his rifle
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    Instant InsightStephen Bush
    ‘Not quite enough’ may prove to be Labour’s epitaph

    Managing to do anything that could add to GDP is welcome, but it will not get the government off the hook

    Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Planning reforms to boost UK housebuilding but Labour set to miss target

    OBR forecasts 305,000 more new homes a year by 2029 as a result of changes

  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    Office for Budget Responsibility
    The OBR stays average

    Our disappointment is immeasurable and our day is ruined

  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Spring Statement 2025 in brief: what you need to know

    A summary of the key policy announcements and official forecasts

    The UK chancellor Rachel Reeves leaves number 11 Downing Street on Wednesday before presenting the Spring Statement to the House of Commons
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Spring Statement as it happened: Reeves announces £14bn plan to fix Britain’s strained public finances

    UK chancellor forced to make last-minute savings to shore up the nation’s finances

    Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    UK Spring Statement 2025
    Chancellor forced to find more savings after watchdog doubts £5bn costing

    Chancellor forced to find more savings after watchdog doubts £5bn costing

    Rachel Reeves during a visit to RAF Northolt in north London
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