Reeves’s Historic Budget

The Papers: Reeves 'risks hurting pensioners' and shoplifting 'crisis'

Warnings ahead of Rachel Reeves' first Budget, and the soaring cost of theft from shops, lead the papers.

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Business - Financial Times - October 25

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

World - Financial Times - 3 days ago

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

The Chancellor has presented her first Budget in the Commons.

Tory leader says Labour chancellor is ‘fiddling the fiscal rules’ in her first Budget

Business - Financial Times - Yesterday

The British people will hope that higher spending delivers the better services they want

Business - Financial Times - Yesterday

But some Whitehall departments including the Home Office face real terms cuts to their budgets

World - Financial Times - Yesterday

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

Business - Financial Times - Yesterday

It is not known how many people are likely to end up paying more under the government's plan.

Official data shows borrowing - the difference between spending and tax take - reached £16.6bn last month.

The political class needs to relearn the value of fiscal discipline

World - Financial Times - October 24

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has delivered Labour’s first Budget since 2010 – here’s what you need to know.