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

Labour chancellor has been warned of a £50bn black hole in the government’s finances and that inflation will see consumers ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The all-powerful bond markets, who decide how creditworthy we are, weren’t fooled by Rachel Reeves. They know an incompetent, taxtastic ninny when they see one. The markets don’t trust Rachel (she’s ...

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 ...

Rachel Reeves billed that as a successful outcome of her policies. But Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - an economics think tank - said it is a "tiny, tiny" amount ...

Rachel Reeves vowed to “take the boot of regulation off the throat of businesses” as she unveiled a bonfire of red tape to boost the economy in her keynote Mansion House speech.