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After Reeves’s historic budget, Labour has time to pursue its revolution. What it needs now is public trust

The government is operating in an unforgiving time and lacks capital with voters. It will be crucial to address that, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Chancellor seeks to calm markets amid jitters after Budget borrowing spree

The Budget increased state spending by almost £70 billion per year funded by increased taxes and borrowing.

Evening Standard

Fares hike blow for Londoners as union decision on Tube strike go-ahead is awaited

RMT executive meets to decide whether to suspend strike - first walkout due from 6pm on Friday

Evening Standard

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How private equity convinced Labour to go easy on its multimillion pound tax perk

The lobbying coup of the decade saw a major climbdown on the chancellor’s planned raid on carried interest

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Brexit and the Tory leadership: a cycle of radicalisation

Editorial: The party has gone too far down the path of Eurosceptic delusion to have a rational debate about its legacy

The Guardian - UK

Opposition parties offer to ease through Israeli imports law before election

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns said passing the bill at the end of the Dail term would ‘send a powerful message’.

Evening Standard

This Labour budget is austerity by another name

Letters: Politicians including Jeremy Corbyn and MPs from the Green party and Plaid Cymru respond to the chancellor’s plans. Plus a letter from Peter Riddle

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Labour can’t properly rebuild our economy outside the single market

The Guardian - UK

Labour’s first budget: redistribution away from the rich after over a decade of Conservative rule

Labour’s first budget in 14 years appears to have avoided the Halloween nightmares that many predicted. Yes, the overall tax burden is at its highest level since 1948, but this budget’s tax and spend distribution is such that it spreads both the pain and the benefit. Most of the pain…

The Conversation

Polls close in vote for Tory members to pick new leader

Voting has ended for Conservative members to choose between Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick to be the party’s next leader.

Evening Standard

UK’s borrowing costs rise as Reeves’s budget prompts fears of slower interest rate cuts

Markets conclude higher level of public spending could lead to higher inflation, making cuts in Bank of England rate less likely

The Guardian - UK

Jenrick’s Southport comments mark a new low. That matters for us all, not just the Tory party

In our poisoned politics, the Conservative leadership race is a reminder of how social norms can wear away in a democracy, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

UK Treasury chief admits business tax rise could lead to lower than anticipated wages

U.K. Treasury chief Rachel Reeves has conceded that wages may rise by less than previously thought as a direct result of her budget decision to increase a tax that businesses pay for their employees

The Independent UK

Voices: Is it now acceptable to accessorise with a Remembrance poppy?

COMMENT: As MPs become the latest people in the public eye with not one but several poppies clustered on their lapels, is this once-powerful symbol in honour of the war dead in danger of becoming something with which to make a fashion statement – or actually a way to keep…

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Budget ‘biggest-ever assault’ on competitiveness, says former chancellor Hunt

The Conservative shadow chancellor opened a Commons Budget debate on Thursday.

The National (Scotland)

Labour Budget raises '£500 million question for Scotland', First Minister says

RACHEL Reeves’s Budget has left a “£500 million question” for Scotland, the First Minister has said ...

The National (Scotland)

Historic 'Scottish Cabinet' papers leading to 1707 Union finally published

HISTORIC Scottish “cabinet papers” dating from the period leading up to parliamentary union with England have been published online for the…

The National (Scotland)

Former council leader quits SNP following suspension

A FORMER council leader has quit the SNP saying his old colleagues “are making an awful lot of mistakes” after he was suspended for rebelling…

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'Some nerve': John Swinney and Russell Findlay clash during heated FMQs Budget debate

RUSSELL Findlay has been told he has “some nerve” by the First Minister during a heated debate on the Budget at FMQs ...

The Guardian - UK

Dining across the divide: ‘I think his opposition to child benefit came partly from a place where he doesn’t have any kids’

They differed on support for those with children – would they agree on experts, immigration or Brexit?

Evening Standard

Minister ‘misinterpreted’ after referring to ‘blob activist’ Tory MP

Commons Leader Lucy Powell and Conservative MP Sir John Hayes shared a series of light-hearted exchanges in the House.

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Labour's National Insurance raid will hit "working people"

It was not all that long ago the Labour Party was campaigning for government, promising to prioritise economic growth, and reassuring voters that vast tax rises were not necessary. Yesterday’s Budget put paid to that.

Evening Standard

Farmers will have to stump up hundreds of thousands of pounds, Tories claim

Business minister Douglas Alexander defended the Government’s reforms of inheritance tax, saying ‘difficult and necessary choices’ had to be made.

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves may need extra £9bn to avoid cuts to public services, says IFS

Institute for Fiscal Studies says chancellor may have to revisit tax plans to avoid real-terms cuts in some areas

The Guardian - UK

Ed Davey: care sector will be ‘pushed to brink’ by national insurance hike and should be exempt

Lib Dem leader says rise in employers’ contributions risks worsening NHS crisis

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