Rachel Reeves
Tax rises will hit growth and hiring, CBI warns, as Reeves prepares to defend budget – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
Graeme Wearden
25, Nov, 2024 @7:49 AM
‘We had no alternative’: Reeves to defend her budget to the CBI
Chancellor is expected to tell business leaders she stands by tax rises and point to Labour’s pro-growth policies
Heather Stewart
25, Nov, 2024 @5:00 AM
Pay gap between bosses and employees must be reduced, UK workers say
Poll reveals appetite for rethinking relationship between the boardroom and low or middle earners
Phillip Inman, Economics editor
24, Nov, 2024 @10:00 AM
Voters must learn to accept that Britain’s challenges are too big to solve straight away | Sonia Sodha
Labour has got off to a shaky start in government. It’s time it told the truth about the state we’re in
Sonia Sodha
24, Nov, 2024 @7:00 AM
‘Sitting with their head in their hands’: farm equipment suppliers fear for impact of budget
Traders at a big machinery show say inheritance tax changes affecting the rural economy have had an immediate impact on business
Joanna Partridge
23, Nov, 2024 @1:00 PM
Rachel Reeves standing firm against U-turn on inheritance tax for farmers
Chancellor understood to be determined to keep policy despite Treasury analysing ways to soften impact
Rowena Mason, Helena Horton and Peter Walker
22, Nov, 2024 @4:51 PM
How are cabinet ministers likely to vote on assisted dying?
Cabinet ministers have been asked to stay neutral before the free vote but this is what we know about their positions
Peter Walker, Rowena Mason and Aletha Adu
22, Nov, 2024 @10:57 AM
Look at the farmers’ protest, and then ask yourself: how will we ever make tax fairer amid such grumbling? | Polly Toynbee
Labour inherited a dire situation that needed desperate change – but powerful lobbies make any tax reform near-impossible, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
Polly Toynbee
22, Nov, 2024 @8:00 AM
UK government borrowing in October tops forecasts at £17.4bn
Debt interest payments push public finances deeper into the red in fresh blow to Rachel Reeves
Phillip Inman
21, Nov, 2024 @9:29 AM
Never mind what Rachel Reeves did long ago at the Bank of England: what claims do you make on your CV? | Emma Brockes
The chancellor is said to have ‘rounded up’ her years of service. But if she did plump up her working achievements a bit, who hasn’t, asks Guardian columnist Emma Brockes
Emma Brockes
21, Nov, 2024 @8:00 AM
Starmer says most farmers won’t be affected by inheritance tax change as Clarkson tells rally it’s a ‘hammer blow’ – as it happened
Jeremy Clarkson tells Westminster protest that government should admit plans weren’t ‘thought out and are a mistake’
Andrew Sparrow
19, Nov, 2024 @6:01 PM
Retailers are right to warn of job cuts after Reeves budget, says Andrew Bailey
Bank of England governor says number of roles could shrink by more than 50,000 after rise in employer NICs
Heather Stewart and Mark Sweney
19, Nov, 2024 @5:16 PM
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