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UK ministers have been ordered to search for cost-cutting reforms as the Chancellor plans to take “tough decisions” on welfare and spending...

Rachel Reeves had hardly stepped down from the dispatch box to make her first big statement as chancellor of the exchequer before facing a furious backlash. She had claimed to have discovered a £22bn hole in public finances upon taking office and was using it to explain why the new…

LABOUR need to remember that the things they said in opposition haven't been forgotten now they're in power ...

AN SNP MSP has accused the Scottish Secretary of choosing “to lie on air” amid a row over an apparently false statement about the SNP Finance…

Treasury says it has received worst postwar inheritance as figures reveal £14.5bn deficit in June

New chancellor says she will make statement to MPs before summer recess about financial situation as she says UK economy has been ‘held back’

The Tories and Labour both withdrew support for candidates being investigated by the Gambling Commission – The Independent speaks to local party supporters who had been campaigning for them, and to voters

The PM trumpeted ‘a recording … admitting that their plans will cost hundreds of billions’. Was it fair to do so?

SCOTLAND is not a country but a “region of the UK”, one of Michael Gove’s most senior advisers has said ...

Letter from senior Treasury official says ministers were told not to present their costings as civil service figures

The Money Saving Expert challenged the Energy Security Secretary about the Tory tax allegation when she appeared on ITV’s Good Morning Britain