FirstFT: EU plans €40bn in loans for Ukraine without US

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Many newspapers lead on the Budget and report that Chancellor Rachel Reeves faces a "backlash".

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Business - Financial Times - October 18

Reeves’s £40bn tax rises will boost growth ‘sustainably’, says IMF

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