Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves embark on Budget week that …
Oct 28, 2024 · Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves embark on Budget week that will define Labour government. Prime minister and chancellor aim to convey sense of joint purpose ahead of long-awaited fiscal event on...
Britain cranks up taxes by £40B and gambles on growth
Oct 31, 2024 · LONDON — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has gone hard with his government’s first program of tax and spend as he places his faith in higher growth. Wednesday’s budget, laid out by his finance chief Rachel Reeves, set out £40 billion in taxes — the highest tax take introduced by a British chancellor since comparable records began.
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves face down cabinet revolt over …
Oct 16, 2024 · Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Wednesday joined forces with chancellor Rachel Reeves to face down a cabinet revolt over plans for “grim” curbs to UK public spending next year.
City to get 'bonuses early' and PM 'backs thought police'
A speech by Chancellor Rachel Reeves and a row over non-crime hate incidents make the front pages. ... and quotes Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's spokesperson saying the guidance on the issue is ...
Keir Starmer names new cabinet, with Reeves as chancellor and
Jul 4, 2024 · Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces his cabinet, with Rachel Reeves becoming the UK's first female chancellor. Angela Rayner is made deputy prime minister, Yvette Cooper becomes home...
This huge Budget gamble by Starmer and Reeves rests on one …
Oct 29, 2024 · Sir Keir has been unstinting in his support for Ms Reeves, most recently in a prelude speech to her Budget, in which he warned the country – and, more pointedly, critics in his own party – that...
UK budget: 5 things you need to know as Labour hikes taxes
Oct 30, 2024 · Starmer and Reeves will argue this kind of change is necessary to mend Britain's public services and fundamentally reorient the British state. But they will surely only have the political space to do this type of tax-hiking budget just once during their five-year term in …
How make-or-break Budget has fractured Keir Starmer’s cabinet
Oct 23, 2024 · Rachel Reeves’ Budget is a make-or-break moment for Sir Keir Starmer’s government, potentially sparking a decade of national renewal – or sowing the seeds of Labour’s downfall.
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves meet private equity bosses as …
Apr 25, 2023 · Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves have held a series of meetings with private equity bosses to discuss future investment from an industry they plan to hit...
Reeves signals hike in National Insurance for firms - BBC
Oct 14, 2024 · Rachel Reeves said Labour's election pledge not to increase National Insurance on "working people" related to the employee element, as opposed to the sum paid by employers. Her comments come as ...