The Chancellor's NI increase and inflation-busting minimum wage hike saw shops slash hiring and investment and threaten steep ...

but Rachel Reeves is expected to keep faith with some hallowed political traditions this week. Not only is she set to hold the famous Budget red box aloft as she stands outside No 11 – she is ...

Rachel Reeves brandished her Red Box today as she prepares to deliver a massive £35billion 'tax bomb' Budget. The Chancellor posed with her Treasury team outside No11 ahead of what is set to be ...

Yet 118 days will have passed between the election and October 30, when Rachel Reeves will ... is shattering before Reeves has even brandished the red box. Sign up to the Front Page newsletter ...

Today marks a historic moment in British history as Rachel ... Budget briefcase for the last time before it was put into the Cabinet War Rooms permanently. Conservative Philip Hammond used a red ...

There is no special Budget red box commissioned for Rachel Reeves when, mid-morning on Wednesday, she becomes the first woman to brandish one outside Number 11. There will be no such frills ...

Rachel Reeves has been dealt a fresh ... Fiscal Studies warned that there was a high chance Reeves would need to reduce borrowing at the Budget. Research economist Nick Ridpath said: “Today ...

Tax rises in the next Budget in October were seen as highly likely, even before Donald Trump announced his blizzard of tariffs. Now another tax hike is inevitable. Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves ...

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