More upbeat business surveys and strong first-quarter GDP show the British economy is recovering from a weak end to 2024, but ...

British finance minister Rachel Reeves said on Wednesday the government did not have any plans to announce tax hikes on a ...

Science and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle compares the chancellor to the late Apple founder, who brought the company back ...

Research into drug treatments and longer-lasting batteries will receive new funding as part of an £86 billion package for science and technology set to be announced in next week’s spending review.

Conservative governments did not care about schools or communities like mine, says the chancellor, as she reveals her ...

The campaign to get a mass transit system in West Yorkshire has been running longer than I have been a Leeds MP. I remember ...

Rachel Reeves must do more than hope for the best when it comes to paying for Labour’s spending - THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: ...

Allan Monks, chief UK economist at JP Morgan, thinks this is the one Reeves will target, by extending the freeze on income tax thresholds from 2028 to 2030. Why do it? Because it’s a classic ...

The IMF has upgraded the UK’s growth forecast but wants Reeves to refine her fiscal rules to avoid unnecessary spending cuts ...

Rachel Reeves is the least popular Cabinet minister in an influential poll of Labour members. The Chancellor, who has faced fury over scrapping winter fuel payments for pensioners, is at the ...

Ms Reeves is alreday under pressure to find up ... The OECD also downgraded its estimate for the UK’s economic growth this year to 1.3 per cent, from 1.4 per cent, and to 1 per cent, from ...