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France warns it could block €15.5bn Sanofi consumer health deal

Proposed sale of controlling stake to US private equity group has sparked backlash in country

Business - Financial Times - October 15

France takes stake in Sanofi unit as part of €16bn sale to CD&R

Deal for consumer health arm faced political furore over ceding controlling stake to US private equity group

Business - Financial Times - October 21

Rachel Reeves’ new rules

She learned this one simple trick… hopefully bond markets don’t HATE her

World - Financial Times - October 24

Rachel Reeves’s Budget balancing act

The chancellor’s tax plans must avoid overburdening business and investors

Business - Financial Times - October 21

Rachel Reeves should not appease bond market vigilantes

In preparing her inaugural Budget, she would do well to ignore advice from market sages

World - Financial Times - October 15

Beard taxes and other lessons for Rachel Reeves

The chancellor could find new ways to raise money — or she could just broaden the tax base

World - Financial Times - October 18

South Africans shocked by Siya and Rachel Kolisi’s divorce

World - Yahoo News - October 23

Rachel Reeves ain’t ‘working people’, says Starmer

Definitive error

Business - Financial Times - October 25

What to expect in Rachel Reeves’ first Budget

Chancellor is due to unveil tax and spend measures, but she may struggle to boost growth quickly

World - Financial Times - October 29

Rachel Reeves: The chess fanatic playing Labour's first big gambit

Profile of the UK's first female chancellor as she prepares to deliver first Labour Budget in 14 years.

How will UK tax rises on private equity’s carried interest work?

Changes unveiled in Rachel Reeves’ Budget mean the performance fee will be treated as income from 2026

Business - Financial Times - October 31

Rachel Reeves loosens UK welfare spending target

Ceiling rises 20% over 5-year period to £200bn to avoid ‘having to take short-term decisions’

World - Financial Times - November 2

TikToker Rachel Yaffe dies of rare liver cancer at 27

Rachel Yaffe, a 27-year-old TikTok star with a rare form of liver cancer, has died.

How can Rachel Reeves fill the UK’s £40bn Budget gap?

Chancellor’s options hemmed in by Labour election promises and NHS spending

Business - Financial Times - October 18

Meet the non-doms fighting Rachel Reeves’s tax raid

With chancellor planning tax shake-up in this month’s Budget, Foreign Investors for Britain is trying to affect debate

Business - Financial Times - October 20

My fiscal rules will provide the stability on which growth depends

Britain faces a choice between investment or decline

Business - Financial Times - October 24

Rachel Reeves aims to raise up to £20bn from national insurance rise

Employers’ contributions set to increase by 2 percentage points in next week’s Budget

Business - Financial Times - October 26

Rachel Reeves’ tax-raising Budget will affect you for years

The bean counters are back in control with a chancellor who wants to change the rules without rocking the boat.

Private equity eyes a deal with Reeves on carried interest

Labour’s agenda highlights tension between raising taxes and courting internationally mobile financiers

World - Financial Times - October 29

Rachel Reeves goes back to the future with a tax and spend budget

Chancellor heeds calls long made on the left for spending to match other European countries with rise of £70bn a year. Autumn budget live – latest updates Budget 2024: key points at a ...

World - The Guardian - October 30

UK Budget as it happened: Rachel Reeves raises tax, spending and borrowing

Taxes rise as chancellor delivers the first Labour budget since 2010

Business - Financial Times - October 30

Rachel Reeves’ first Budget leaves key economic challenges unresolved

OBR says announcements amount to one of the biggest fiscal loosenings of recent decades

Business - Financial Times - October 30

Rachel Reeves’ budget leaves her little room to manoeuvre

Bet on long-term improvements will make spending review in 2027 a crunch time for the government

World - Financial Times - October 31

Rachel Reeves defiant after historic tax and spend Budget

Verdict of markets will be critical for UK chancellor’s plans to increase government borrowing

Business - Financial Times - November 1

Will women be the big losers from Rachel Reeves’ first Budget?

National insurance increases will push up the cost of childcare and hit lower-paid part-time jobs

World - Financial Times - 5 days ago

Brahms for the soul on the night the US election results came in | Rachel Cooke

A stirring performance by Víkingur Ólafsson of a piano concerto written amid a period of great sorrow. I think we could relate. On Wednesday evening, I went to the Royal Festival Hall on London’s ...

World - The Guardian - 4 days ago

Are you worried about inflation? Then fear Trump, not Rachel Reeves | William Keegan

The chancellor’s budget may have a small effect on UK interest rates. But US tax cuts and tariffs could have international repercussions. Having been fairly critical of my (almost) friend Rachel ...

World - The Guardian - 3 days ago

Rachel Reeves might come to rue her ‘read my lips’ moment

The UK chancellor could yet find herself forced to raise taxes again

World - Financial Times - 14 hours ago

UK inflation falls below 2% for first time since 2021 in boost to Rachel Reeves

Surprise annual drop to 1.7% in September raises chance of interest rate cuts, increasing budget leeway. UK inflation surprise opens up wriggle room for lower rates and less painful budget ...

World - The Guardian - October 16

Macron’s business policies made him ‘president of the rich’. Rachel Reeves, beware | Phillip Inman

The chancellor rightly wants to stimulate the economy by boosting growth. But she would be unwise to do it at the expense of the poorest. There is a danger that Labour will suffer the Macron effect ...

World - The Guardian - October 19

Rachel Reeves’ budget is like a long car journey, without a Fruit-tella in sight | Alison Phillips

Stopping to look ‘under the bonnet’ of the nation’s finances is all well and good, but how long does it take so see the engine’s knackered?. And still there’s another 10 days to go. After 15 bumpy ...