56 m. ago Blow for Rachel Reeves as unemployment creeps up and wage growth slows on the eve of Chancellor's spending review

The rate of UK unemployment increased to 4.6 per cent in the three months to April, from 4.5 per cent in the three months to March, the Office for National Statistics said today.

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71 m. ago Londoners are netting Treasury £5,000 per head, new report reveals ahead of Rachel Reeves Spending Review

Analysis by the House of Commons Library lays bare how dependent the UK is on the capital as its economic engine

Economics

85 m. ago Rachel Reeves' Spending Review major predictions on what will and won't be in it

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will on Wednesday announce her major Spending Review, setting out government budgets for future years - here's everything you need to know

Politics

2 h. ago Rachel Reeves spending review: What will be in the spending review and what does it mean for Scotland?

The Spending Review will be delivered by Chancellor Rachel Reeves on Wednesday.

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6 h. ago Savings, shares, houses and inheritance... this is how Rachel Reeves plans to mount a series of damaging tax raids on Middle England: DANIEL HANNAN

We are reduced to eating the seed corn. There is no other way to describe hiking taxes when they are already at a 70-year high.

Economics

8 h. ago Rachel Reeves gives major update on future of nuclear power plant Sizewell C

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to confirm the multi-billion pound nuclear plant Sizewell C on the Suffolk coast will go-ahead as part of Wednesday's Spending Review

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9 h. ago Rachel Reeves to sign off funding for Sizewell C nuclear power plant

The Chancellor will announce £14.2billion to pay for a new reactor at the site in Suffolk, with the plant eventually powering 6million homes.

Economics

10 h. ago Martin Lewis lists five things DWP will check after £300 payment rule change

The finance expert has set out what exactly the DWP will be counting as income for the winter fuel payment

Economics

11 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Criticising Red China is a moreish activity. You try some and before long hanker for another plateful

China's vice-premier He Lifeng, a big yam, is in London and spent his morning with Rachel Reeves.

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11 h. ago Labour MPs call for benefit cuts to be scrapped after winter fuel payment U

Rachel Reeves has announced that around nine million more pensioners will receive the fuel payment this year

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12 h. ago DWP confirm what counts as 'taxable income' as winter fuel payment rule announced after U

Millions of people in the UK will have their £300 payment restored this winter

Economics

13 h. ago LIZZY BUCHAN: 'Rachel Reeves hopes public give her credit for listening to winter fuel anger'

Chancellor Rachel Reeves wants to draw a line under the winter fuel allowance saga that has dogged the Government since last summer, writes Mirror Political editor Lizzy Buchan

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13 h. ago Rachel Reeves makes winter fuel payment vow to pensioners after major U

Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed that millions of pensioners would have the winter fuel allowance restored this year after the Government bowed to pressure to ditch the cut

Economics

13 h. ago The Guardian view on Labour’s tough choices: they are costing the government dearly | Editorial

Austerity-era scepticism runs deep – and Labour’s abstract promises are falling flat as Nigel Farage rises in the pollsThe Labour government’s abrupt U-turn on winter fuel payments – restoring the benefit to more than three-quarters of pensioners – reveals less a change of heart than a sobering realisation in Westminster: after years of austerity, the public no longer gives politicians the benefit of the doubt. The irony is hard to miss. Labour set out to prove that “grown-up” economics means difficult decisions – only to find that once trust is lost, voters won’t accept vague promises without tangible results.It turns out many are sceptical that sacrifices will produce better results for society. That’s why ministers are struggling to justify cuts to disability benefits as a way to “fund” public services – or to convince the public that Britain can’t afford to lift the two-child benefit cap even as ministers claim they will reduce child poverty. There may be more conspicuous retrea...

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14 h. ago Nato chief says UK’s defence spending plans not at odds with 5% goal

Mark Rutte would not reveal the deadline for when he hopes Nato allies will reach the target.

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14 h. ago Martin Lewis gives his verdict on Labour’s winter fuel payment U

‘I’m very grateful to the Chancellor,’ the personal finance guru said

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15 h. ago Senior council leader ‘confident’ of more spending review support for the poor

The head of a group of authorities in deprived areas across the North and the Midlands also called for capital investment in ‘left behind’ places.

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15 h. ago Ministers FINALLY settle spending plans with Rachel Reeves' Treasury 48 hours before they are to be revealed, as minister says 'austerity is over'

Haggling had been raging this morning, with Home Secretary Yvette Cooper desperately trying to get more money for the police and borders funding.

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15 h. ago Winter fuel payment should be restored for NI pensioners – Lyons

Around 250,000 pensioners in NI were affected when the payment was cut last year in a cost-saving measure by the new Labour government.

Economics

15 h. ago Winter fuel payment: Scottish pensioners could be worse off than those in England and Wales after U

The U-turn was confirmed on Monday by Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

Economics