8 h. ago ALEX BRUMMER: Chancellor's emotional rollercoaster set to continue

The U-turns on welfare and winter fuel, together with likely revisions to OBR growth assumptions, suggest the opening of a £20billion to £30billion funding chasm to be closed in the autumn.

Politics

40 h. ago Keir Starmer speaks out on Rachel Reeves’ tears in the House of Commons

The Prime Minister spoke about Chancellor Rachel Reeves' emotions during PMQs

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41 h. ago Could Chancellor's tears SAVE her career? Pollster says show of emotion could boost Rachel Reeves' popularity like Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign

Luke Tryl, the UK director of More In Common, pointed to how a similar show of emotion by Hillary Clinton 'humanised' her during her 2008 presidential campaign.

Culture

43 h. ago Markets rally after Starmer says Reeves to remain chancellor and backs fiscal rules

Move partially reverses sell-off prompted by investor fears chancellor would be sacked after emotional PMQs appearance

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45 h. ago Gilts rally after Starmer says Reeves to remain chancellor and backs fiscal rules

Move partially reverses sell-off prompted by investor fears chancellor would be sacked after emotional PMQs appearance

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46 h. ago Gilts rally after Starmer says Reeves to remain chancellor for ‘a long time’

Move partially reverses sell-off prompted by investor fears chancellor would be sacked after emotional PMQs appearance

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63 h. ago Voices: Watching Rachel Reeves crying in the Commons was quietly devastating

A single tear rolled down the chancellor’s cheeks at PMQs in a rare and distressing display of emotion from the ‘Iron Chancellor’. I found myself wanting to cry too, says Victoria Richards

Politics

66 h. ago Rachel Reeves 'close to tears in Parliament' as PM fails to back her

The Chancellor appeared visibily emotional on the Front Bench

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5 d. ago ALEX BRUMMER: Labour has trapped us all in a doom loop of ever higher taxes and welfare spending. Things are bad now but, with four years to go, this is how much worse they can get

As every football fan knows, the moment the club chairman is forced to quell rumours of the manager's imminent demise by issuing a vote of confidence, the gaffer's days are numbered.

Economics

1 week ago A poem and mistake Freaky Friday meets the classics at Edinburgh Fringe

A desk, a chair, a microphone and one female body. US playwright Cheri Magid is set to take audiences at The Edinburgh Fringe on a magical rollercoaster ride of transformation gender, sexuality, and desire, with the UK premiere of her critically-acclaimed play, A Poem and a Mistake.

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1 week ago ALEX BRUMMER: All that Lady Thatcher achieved will now go up in flames like an oil drum brazier on a picket line...

The potential damage to an already stuttering economy, weighed down by the Chancellor's growth-sapping £40 billion of tax rises, doesn't bear thinking about.

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2 w. ago The Bank of England never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity, says ALEX BRUMMER

The latest minutes from the Bank of England show that after an unexpectedly firm start to the year, the British economy has descended into gloom.

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2 w. ago Now it's Labour's turn to face the music when global events turn sour: ALEX BRUMMER

Yesterday's claim by Chancellor Rachel Reeves that Labour's number one mission is to 'put more money in the pockets of working people' does not stand up to scrutiny.

Politics

2 w. ago Fed chief Powell's stubborn defiance on interest rates risks an avoidable downturn, says ALEX BRUMMER

The Federal Reserve's rate hold should come as no surprise. Chairman Jay Powell is determined to preserve the US central bank's independence.

Events

3 w. ago The six claims from Rachel Reeves that would never pass the test on a lie detector: ALEX BRUMMER

Rachel Reeves 's spending review was one of the most disingenuous statements I can remember in my long career as a financial journalist.

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3 w. ago ALEX BRUMMER: If this is a fixed economy, I'd hate to see a broken one

Nearly half a century has passed since Margaret Thatcher skewered the incumbent PM James Callaghan at the 1979 election with her famous ' Labour Isn't Working' poster, which showed...

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3 w. ago Exact date UK to be as hot as Barcelona with Brits basking in 27C Spanish plume

The weather this week is set to be a rollercoaster of torrential rain, thunder and roasting temperatures as parts of the UK are set to swelter in Mediterranean-style heat by Friday

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