41 m. ago Autumn budget 2025: Live updates as Rachel Reeves insists tax hikes are 'fair and necessary' 

Follow the Daily Mail's liveblog for updates as Rachel Reeves delivers her Budget today and plans to raise taxes to fund handouts worth thousands of pounds to Britain's biggest jobless families.

Society

3 h. ago Rachel Reeves to announce UK Budget after weeks of speculation over tax rises

Reeves told Labour MPs the Budget was "a package, not a pick-and-mix. You can't say you like the cola bottles but you don't like the fruit salad".

Economics

9 h. ago Close to £2,000 of an average earner's annual taxes will go towards Britain's bloated benefits bill, new analysis has found on eve of crucial Budget

Workers paid the median salary nationwide will have more of their taxes spent on welfare - £1,970 - than any other item of public spending, as increasing numbers of people receive sickness benefits.

Economics

13 h. ago Millions of workers to be £900 better off a year after minimum wage rates hikes confirmed

'Too many people are still struggling to make ends meet'

Economics

14 h. ago Rachel Reeves warned against ‘dire’ cuts to Motability in Budget by over 40 disability charities

Exclusive: Reeves told that cuts would ‘betray disabled people and steal our independence’

Events

55 h. ago Failure to scrap windfall tax will 'sound death knell' for North Sea oil, Rachel Reeves told

The Chancellor has also been warned to make ‘hard choices” and avoid “death by a thousand taxes” by one of Britain’s biggest business leaders ahead of Wednesday’s announcement.

Events

62 h. ago Reeves gets more abuse because she is a woman, Starmer suggests

Rachel Reeves told The Times Magazine this week that she was ‘sick of people mansplaining how to be Chancellor to me’.

Events

63 h. ago Hiking betting taxes will close bookies and cost thousands of jobs, Reeves told

A bookie boss has warned the Chancellor that hiking taxes on the industry in this week's budget would hammer the betting industry - and even leave the Treasury worse off

Economics

3 d. ago Rachel Reeves warned against Budget decision that could cost 'tens of thousands of jobs'

300 businesses and organisations, including Bosch, Mitsubishi, EDF, the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, and Citizen's Advice raised concerns about the future of the industry

Events

4 d. ago Rachel Reeves' mother Sally just can't stop reading the Daily Mail

Ms Reeves told The Times her mum enjoys the Mail's puzzles and quizzes, but was 'very angry' with the paper given recent coverage about her - but not angry enough to stop buying a daily copy.

Politics

5 d. ago Investment in AI to create thousands of new jobs – Government

Ministers said areas to benefit will include Wales, Bristol and London.

Politics

7 d. ago Rachel Reeves told to create new 1pc and 2pc tax to raise billions

The Chancellor has indicated one area she aims to increase taxes next week

Economics

7 d. ago Rachel Reeves orders probe into fears private dentists are ripping off patients

Chancellor Rachel Reeves told the watchdog to investigate concerns patients are paying over the odds for dentistry due to hidden costs, overtreatment and lack of information

Science

7 d. ago Scotland's best pubs for winter walk named including inn 'legendary for its food'

After a wintery hike, there is nothing better than a hot meal.

Politics

1 week ago ‘Red cup rebellion’: striking Starbucks baristas urge customers to stay away

In Brooklyn, workers walked off the job in search of fair pay and conditions – and said many customers were in supportAt a popular Starbucks in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill, hundreds of people – including workers, union allies, and community supporters – filled the sidewalks. In 40F (4.4C) weather, picketers held signs, marched, and chanted “What’s disgusting? Union-busting!” and “No contract, no coffee!”More than a thousand Starbucks workers across the US walked off the job on Thursday in over 40 cities, marking one of the largest coordinated actions yet by the rapidly-growing union movement inside the world’s largest coffee chain. Continue reading...

Economics

1 week ago Verizon set to cut thousands of jobs and change some corporate

‘We will be a simpler, leaner and scrappier business,’ CEO Dan Schulman said

Politics

1 week ago Live updates as Keir Starmer visits Anglesey after major nuclear announcement

The UK's first small modular nuclear reactor will be built at Wylfa, creating thousands of jobs

Events

2 w. ago Cutting home insulation funding will imperil UK’s climate goals, Reeves told

Energy firms and charities urge chancellor to avoid short-term fix that could also harm low-income householdsRachel Reeves has been told that cutting funding for home insulation at the budget would risk the UK’s climate goals and hurt low-income households in a joint intervention by energy firms, fuel poverty charities and environmental groups.In a letter to the chancellor, more than 60 groups and companies urged Reeves not to take such a damaging “short-term fix” to slash funding for more energy-efficient homes to pay for a reduction in energy bills. Continue reading...

Society

2 w. ago Pretty Lake District market towm with the 'best view in Europe' is perfect for autumn

The town is cradled between two of the Lake District's most popular mountain hikes

Politics

2 w. ago Thousands of offshore workers could lose jobs if they fail to lose weight

Offshore Energies UK will from November 2026 require offshore staff to weigh a maximum of 124kg.

Events