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Britain's Labour finance minister Rachel Reeves declared Monday that public finances faced an extra hole of GBP22 billion inherited from the Conservatives, who warned she was readying tax hikes.

Chancellor’s admission on tax hikes comes just weeks after Labour was elected to power

Sir Keir Starmer has taken on the hard-Left and seen off the Tory Right. But now the Prime Minister faces his biggest battle yet: a head-on collision with the undisputed heavyweight champions of British politics — the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Exclusive: Ipsos data shows both Labour and Tory parties lost a significant number of Black and Asian voters, who turned to Greens and Independents in unprecedented numbers

What voters want is a display of reliability and competence – but the current favourite for next leader has other ideas, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The coming of a new Labour government is a moment to take stock. Are there things that the new administration can learn from previous Labour governments? Is it true, as David Cameron claimed in 2009, that Labour governments always run out of money?

THE Labour-run Scotland Office should revive the wartime policy of holding regional meetings with politicians across the country, Fergus Ewing has…

Few can doubt that the Tories left office with the public finances in a dire state. But it takes two parties not to talk about the tax rises necessary to plug that gap. Indeed, no lesser authority than the Institute for Government’s Paul Johnson accused both Labour and the Conservatives…

HS2, hospitals and railway lines are all rumoured for cut backs