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Spring Statement 2025: More benefits cuts and crackdown on tax avoiders announced as growth forecast halved

Rachel Reeves confirmed the Office for Budget Responsibility had revised the UK’s growth forecast for 2025 from 2% in the autumn to just 1% today

Evening Standard

UK Set To Cut Public Spending By Billions Of Pounds

Britain's finance minister Rachel Reeves is set to detail billions of pounds of spending cuts in her Spring Statement on Wednesday to address the country's ailing public finances.

International Business Times

Good morning Britain – prepare to be told yet again that decline is all you deserve

It’s Groundhog Day: the party may change but even under Labour, the script remains stubbornly the same, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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SNP urge Rachel Reeves to 'ditch Tory fiscal rules' instead of Spring Statement cuts

Rachel Reeves has sought to blame deteriorating public finances on a global rise in borrowing costs as she prepares to unveil a spring statement…

The National (Scotland)

GMB Showdown: Susanna Reid Grills Stammering Labour Minister Into Public Apology

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander found herself in the hot seat on Good Morning Britain, as presenters Richard Madeley and Susanna Reid gave her a tough time.

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Further benefits cuts planned as Rachel Reeves forced to find extra £1.6bn

Chancellor risks wrath of Labour backbenchers with spring statement set to confirm deeper cuts

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves to announce extra £2.2billion defence spending in Spring Statement

Ms Reeves will insist the spending is the ‘right decision in a more insecure world’

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The UFC stars Britain needs most after deflating Leon Edwards and Molly McCann scenes

UFC London saw McCann retire and Edwards drift further from a second title reign, so which fighters represent the present and future of British MMA?

The Independent UK

Make young people do military training in exchange for benefits, former Tesco boss says

The former Tesco chairman said young people could be ‘coerced’ out of inactivity by making benefits conditional

The Independent UK

Archaeologists stunned by one of Britain's biggest Iron Age hoards which could rewrite history

One of the largest and most significant Iron Age hoards ever discovered in the UK has been unveiled. It will likely reshape our understanding of life in Britain 2,000 years ago.

Euronews

Lower Thames Crossing plan for Essex and Kent approved by government

Heidi Alexander gives green light to controversial £9bn tunnel, Britain’s biggest single planned road-building project

The Guardian - UK

One in five Britons now claiming benefits

Welfare in numbers: The facts behind Britain’s soaring benefits bill

The Independent UK

The Alienation Effect by Owen Hatherley review – how immigrants reshaped postwar Britain

Behind many symbols of quintessentially British culture – from Picture Post to Pevsner’s guides – were refugees who fled Europe in the 1930s and 40s

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves is all about growth. So why won’t she admit that Brexit is its worst enemy?

Our exit from the EU won’t be a focus of the spring statement, but it should be. Most now accept the need for closer ties, writes Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Iron age hoard found in North Yorkshire could change Britain’s history

More than 800 objects unearthed near Melsonby show the north was ‘definitely not a backwater’ 2,000 years ago

The Guardian - UK

Britons cutting back on spending as confidence in economy falls, survey shows

Most feel financially secure but think UK’s economy is worsening, as chancellor plans welfare cuts in spring statement

The Independent UK

Detectorist finds ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ Iron Age hoard that could change Britain’s history

The remarkable find offers insights about the wealth and power dynamics of 1st century Britain

The Independent UK

Huge Iron Age hoard could alter understanding of ancient elites

The find in Melsonby, North Yorkshire, by a metal detectorist is one of the most important ever found, Historic England has said.

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The Independent UK

Shocking figures reveal UK spends double the defence budget on working age benefits

Analysis by The Independent has revealed the scale of Britain’s welfare bill to the taxpayer

The Independent UK

Welfare in numbers: The facts behind Britain’s soaring benefits bill

As Labour attempts to tighten Britain’s burgeoning welfare belt, Alicja Hagopian and David Maddox investigate the true cost of the welfare state

The Guardian - UK

What Rachel Reeves can do to raise money instead of cutting public services

Letters: David Murray and Bernie Evans on the alternatives open to the chancellor to tackle Britain’s crumbling finances. Plus a letter from Elizabeth Atkinson

The Conversation

East of Empire: partitioning of India and Palestine unleashed the violent conflict that continues today

What can Indian and Pakistani press archives, government records and memoirs tell us about the Middle East of the 1920s and ’30s, when Britain’s empire was in its twilight years? What did the dissolution of the Ottoman empire, the movement for Egyptian independence, or the crisis in British Mandate Palestine…

The Fashion Central

Migrant’s Unbelievable Claim Works in Court: No ID, No Phone, No Deportation

An Iraqi man has managed to avoid being deported from the UK after claiming a people smuggler tossed his ID and forced him to get rid of his phone while on his way to Britain.

International Business Times

UK Targets Spending Cuts To Mend Public Finances

Britain's Labour government will deliver a highly anticipated fiscal update on Wednesday, with finance minister Rachel Reeves expected to detail billions of pounds of spending cuts to address the country's struggling economy.

The Independent UK

How one of Britain’s ‘worst seaside resorts’ is reinventing itself with a multi-million transformation

Rhyl – once dubbed ‘Blackpool after a neutron bomb’ – hopes to improve its reputation

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