7 hours ago Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves is warned her inheritance tax hike will decimate middle class savings and leave 'people who have saved all their life' without an inheritance to pass to their children

As the backlash against her budget grows, Senior Conservatives have said the move would force those who had saved all their lives to 'pay the price'.

Events

8 hours ago Rachel Reeves ‘set to raise fuel duty next year’ as Tory MPs demand freeze

Motoring groups say an end to the temporary 5p cut in fuel duty would be catastrophic for many

Politics

8 hours ago HS2 high speed trains to Euston will be 'most comfortable' on UK rail network with 87cm of legroom

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to confirm in the Budget that HS2 will run to Euston

Politics

8 hours ago Labour plots a tax raid on your holidays with stealth levy on air fares set to be announced in upcoming Budget cash grab

Millions of families are bracing themselves for above-inflation hikes in Air Passenger Duty - a stealth levy on air fares known as the 'holiday tax' - as part of Rachel Reeves' Budget cash grab.

Economics

8 hours ago Record number of businesses 'on the edge of collapse' amid Budget uncertainty, shock research reveals

Bosses are 'holding their breath' ahead of the Budget later this month amid fears that Rachel Reeves is plotting a tax raid on businesses, including an increase to employers' NI payments.

Economics

8 hours ago Chancellor must not 'punish' military families with Labour's tax raid on private schools 'at a time of such global instability', Tory peer urges

Ten days before the Budget, Lord Kempsell has written to Rachel Reeves warning Labour 'should not be punishing military families at a time of such global instability'.

Events

13 hours ago Workers set for income tax hike as Rachel Reeves ‘to extend freeze on thresholds’

Conservatives have accused Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves of preparing to break a manifesto pledge

Economics

14 hours ago Chancellor Rachel Reeves 'considering income tax threshold squeeze' in Budget

Income tax thresholds usually rise in line with inflation but the-then Chancellor Rishi Sunak imposed a freeze in 2021 to claw back cash after the Covid pandemic

Economics

15 hours ago ‘We are going to keep our manifesto pledges’ says Starmer amid tax rise reports

The PM told reporters in Berlin that he was ‘not going to pre-empt the individual measures’ that will come in Rachel Reeves’ fiscal statement.

Politics