Rachel Reeves

The plans she has suggested so far will only yield economic benefits years into the future. But what can she do straight away?

The right wing, Tory-supporting media is banging the drum for quick results, but trying to fix an economy as broken as ours will take time and patience

The chancellor deserves some of the criticism hurled her way, but she is right to focus on Britain’s long-term future

Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer are making a huge mistake in not openly embracing offers to cut red tape

A little more money in employees’ pockets and the potential for falling interest rates may help ease fears for the economy

Keir Starmer is wasting time on bizarre claims about AI and productivity instead of convincing voters that he has a real plan.

Whatever the chancellor has to do to maintain fiscal credibility has to be done, but there is no reason it has to be spending cuts

The 12 months ahead are fraught with danger for both Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch

The right wing press love it, but this ‘scandal’ will join Angela Rayner’s flat and Keir Starmer’s lockdown beer in being quickly forgotten

Farmers are a short-term risk, but Labour’s biggest task is getting impatient Britain to buy into the power of long-term investment

Concerns over youth mobility and Northern Ireland are growing in Brussels

The Budget largely avoided tough choices as the new chancellor put pressure on Wes Streeting by throwing cash at the NHS

Rachel Reeves made a start on fixing the Conservatives’ years of waste - but it is nowhere near enough

Rachel Reeves will neglect the fact that Brexit and being outside of the single market costs the UK “more than £40 billion a year”

If Labour raises taxes and the uber-wealthy begin to leave, will anybody care?

Clearly, the chancellor has no intention of courting short-term popularity as the budget looms

Whatever Rachel Reeves announces will make her deeply unpopular. But that won’t necessarily mean she’s wrong

The IFS delivers a gloomy verdict that will put pressure on the chancellor for tax rises and spending cuts

Rachel Reeves will have less to spend - but will argue the rise in applications vindicates her strategy

As October 30 looms, Reeves must prepare to perform a fiscal juggling act

The one thing you can rely on at party get-togethers is lots of booze

UK government debt is set to treble catastrophically in the next 50 years. Can Labour do anything about it?

If Rachel Reeves wants to be a truly reforming chancellor, she should embrace a more radical approach to accounting

The same tax rate for earnings and wealth would be a seismic change that raised billions

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has some tough decisions to make in October’s budget, but has options to achieve growth and avoid austerity

The government has demonstrated a conviction that dangerous behaviour has to have consequences

Falling interest rates have nothing to do with Labour’s new chancellor - but she will definitely take them

Rachel Reeves’s cuts come only after the previous government squandered vast sums of money

The chancellor ripped up Tory legacy dreams and made the right call on the Winter Fuel Payment

Rachel Reeves delivered controversial cuts.. and then came 'proof' the Tories misled the nation