5 h. ago Starmer says no ‘big decisions’ in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ spring statement

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to announce the spring budget on March 26

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5 h. ago Sir Kier Starmer says no ‘big decisions’ in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ spring statement

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to announce the spring budget on March 26

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33 h. ago John Swinney makes Trident nuclear deterrent declaration after Sir Keir Starmer defence spending decision

It came as the First Minister backed an increase in defence spending announced by Sir Keir Starmer

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33 h. ago Nuclear weapons provide 'no tangible benefit' to Scotland's security, insists John Swinney

The First Minister backed Keir Starmer's decision to increase UK defence spending but said cash should be spent on "conventional" weapons instead of nukes.

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34 h. ago Rachel Reeves warns European allies that global trade is at risk unless they follow UK's new ambition to spend 3% of GDP on defence as she attends G20 in South Africa

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will insist Western powers must 'step up and do more' or face huge penalties from disruption to trade.

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38 h. ago Keir Starmer says 'dangerous new era' forced decision for 'biggest rise' in defence spending since the Cold War

The Prime Minister said ‘extremely difficult and painful choices’ would be needed to reach the spending goal, including a cut to foreign aid

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51 h. ago Keir Starmer says 'dangerous new era' forced decision for 'biggest rise' in defence spending since Cold War

The Prime Minister said ‘extremely difficult and painful choices’ would be needed to reach the spending goal, including a cut to foreign aid

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52 h. ago WW3 fears grow as Starmer denies Trump forced 'biggest change since Cold War'

To fund the increases in defence spending, Starmer said 'painful' decisions will have to be made as he explained development assistance aid will be cut from 0.5% to 0.3%

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3 d. ago DOMINIC LAWSON: What my chess game with a flustered Rachel Reeves revealed to me about her next move as Chancellor

Scarcely a week goes by without some example of a Cabinet minister found to have exaggerated or even made up their qualification for the high office they hold.

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6 d. ago Is cash ISA limit being slashed to £4,000? Everything we know so far and what savers should do now

More than 18 million people currently have a cash Isa - but Chancellor Rachel Reeves is reportedly under pressure to axe or reduce the tax-free allowance

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7 d. ago Reeves ‘absolutely committed’ to spending 2.5% of GDP on defence

Chancellor Rachel Reeves said an increase in spending in line with what Labour promised in its manifesto will be done ‘in the proper way’.

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7 d. ago Labour row over benefit cuts as Rachel Reeves 'plots to reduce spending by £5billion but resist calls to spend it on defence or back

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is reported to want to cut the figure from state handouts for the disabled in her spring statement in March.

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8 d. ago 'April Fool’s Day will be no laughing matter for millions of already cash

A flurry of bill increases will land all at once in April which, together with the threat of more, could impact Chancellor Rachel Reeves' standing among voters in the months ahead

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8 d. ago What are the UK’s options for funding a bigger military budget?

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is under pressure to increase spending on the armed forces as security concerns grow

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8 d. ago Starmer in public row with most senior judge over Gaza immigration decision

The PM doubled down on his previous suggestion that it was ‘for Parliament to make laws and for the government to decide policy’

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8 d. ago Rachel Reeves accused of being 'out of her depth' as inflation jumps to three per cent

Stubborn inflation will make it harder for the Bank of England to cut rates

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8 d. ago ITV Good Morning Britain's Charlotte Hawkins abruptly halts show for breaking news

Good Morning Britain presenter Charlotte Hawkins interrupted the ITV breakfast show on Wednesday morning to deliver some breaking news, and it was bad news for Chancellor Rachel Reeves.

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8 d. ago Nigel Farage warns Labour to stop being so 'miserable' and 'declinist' to get Britain's birth rate rising again

The Reform leader blasted Chancellor Rachel Reeves for making the public 'reach for the tissues' with her downbeat rhetoric and warnings of difficult decisions.

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9 d. ago Top judge 'attempting to suppress criticism' of the courts after she hits out at Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch for highlighting Gaza refugee decision

The backlash came after Baroness Carr, the Lady Chief Justice, revealed she had written to Sir Keir Starmer over his exchanges in the House of Commons last week.

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1 week ago 'Britain cannot win any wars. But only a lasting peace is worth winning'

Keir Starmer's decision to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine is a moral and political win, says Fleet Street Fox. The risk is whether Our Boys are in the way when Putin moves again

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