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British Chancellor of Exchequer Rachel Reeves, first woman to hold the post, has on Tuesday delivered the first Labour Budget in over a decade, and it carries the hallmarks...
Chirs Blackhurst, The Independent There are those on the left who wish private schools to be abolished completely. For them, VAT on school fees is the equivalent of a...
It is hard to see how Rachel Reeves can achieve the three incompatible objectives she has been set in the Budget. Her choices resemble one of those Venn diagrams...
Emma Clarke, The Independent As much as it has been championed, the annual Labour Party conference has also been criticised by certain sections of the media. Plus ca change...
Emily Sheffield, The Independent As we wake up this morning to the news that Rachel Reeves will be adding a fourth cat to Downing Street — alongside Keir Starmer’s...
Most Labour MPs were “OK with it”, I was told, when Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, announced she was cutting the winter fuel payment to pensioners. They accepted the argument,...
This time last year, Rachel Reeves said she had “no plans” to raise any taxes apart from the small increases, including VAT on school fees, that she had already...
A ritual dance takes place after every economic statistic is issued: regardless of the figures, Labour ministers complain about their economic inheritance, while the Conservatives insist they bequeathed an...
David Thomas, The Independent I became a teacher because I wanted the next generation to be better off than my own. But unless we have a radical change, this...
Of the 335 new MPs elected last month, 139 have made their first speeches in the three weeks that the House of Commons was sitting before the summer recess....
