The Treasury watchdog will not check that Rachel Reeves is balancing the books this Spring. The Chancellor has announced that the Office for Budget Responsibility will produce an economic forecast on ...

Rachel Reeves has insisted she has the “right economic plan” for the country despite the budget watchdog slashing its growth forecast for the year and growing fears over the impact of the war in the ...

Sir Keir Starmer has suggested that Rachel Reeves may consider tax increases or public spending cuts to avoid breaching her borrowing rules. The Prime Minister, while not ruling out measures to reduce ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rachel Reeves denied misleading the public over the budget. (PA) (Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Wire) Sir Keir Starmer has defended Rachel ...

Lower-income households are forecast to become £500 a year poorer over the next five years as a result of the Chancellor’s spring statement, according to the Resolution Foundation think tank. Rachel ...

Rachel Reeves needs AI to “move the needle” on economic growth, says the Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey. Ahead of the Spring Statement, Mr Bailey highlighted the barriers to economic growth in ...

Rachel Reeves’s budget was seen as a “make or break” moment for the chancellor and the government, which is suffering from low approval ratings and rapidly fading public confidence. At the same time, ...

This week saw chancellor Rachel Reeves deliver her second Spring Statement – or Spring Forecast, as the Treasury seems to have rebranded it. The revised label seems appropriate given there was little ...

The Bank of England expects Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves’ budget to reduce UK inflation by as much as half a percentage point next spring, even as the government boost spending over the ...