What made this a distinctive Labour budget is that taxes have increased to raise welfare benefits by £10 billion, notably abolishing the two-child limit. Redistribution is firmly back on the agenda.

It was Harold Wilson who declared in 1962 that “the Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing”. But claims of ...

The Budget Reeves laid out included a freeze on income tax thresholds until 2030-31, which is expected to move roughly one ...

With her reckless, incoherent Budget, the chancellor has raised tax in order to increase spending on welfare. We will all be ...

At a stroke the chancellor has junked the sensible principles that made New Labour great and buried them beneath an ...

A trans woman has been jailed for harassing Labour minister Ellie Reeves, as the judge slammed the civil courts for allowing ...

Neil Kinnock, who called for the two-child benefit limit to be scrapped, says the Chancellor's decision to remove the policy ...

LONDON] Britons reacted overwhelmingly negatively to Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves’ budget, suggesting little ...

Rachel Reeves may have placated the bond market with her budget on Wednesday but higher taxes for Britons on everything from ...

HMRC will penalise savers who put cash in stocks and shares to escape a cash Isa crackdown from the Labour Party government.

Badenoch slammed Reeves move to hike taxes by £26bn on Wednesday so she could plough cash into welfare handouts.

Reeves and Starmer swerved the alternative of a righteous public execution: breaking the letter of their pledge by openly ...