Rachel Reeves must raise taxes or cut spending in the autumn budget to plug a £41billion budget black hole, the National ...

Despite interest rates being brought to their lowest level in more than two years, a combination of meagre economic growth, high government spending and U-turns over proposed welfare cuts has trapped ...

There is a basic law in economics that the more you tax something, the less you get of it. That goes in particular for investment, personal effort and the preparedness of entrepreneurs to take ...

EXCLUSIVE: A tax change could massively reduce both legal and illegal migration or make it pay for itself better.

High levels of migration might not always be good for community relations if large numbers of new arrivals descend on one ...

Rachel Reeves is facing a multi-billion-pound headache as she begins the process of drawing up her next Budget, expected to take place in October or November. The Chancellor will need to cough up ...

Rachel Reeves may be forced to raise taxes again if “anything at all goes wrong” with her economic plan, leading experts are warning. The Institute for Fiscal Studies stressed that the Chancellor has ...

2r4f (2jbk236gnwac33n1jcz_media_dl_1.png Office for Budget Responsibility (Bloomberg) — Rachel Reeves has six weeks to come up with a plan to fix the UK’s ailing public services, deliver an economic ...

This approach also sees the government embracing the private sector to promote economic growth. This is a departure from Labour’s approach under Jeremy Corbyn, which ran on an economic policy platform ...