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What Labour’s first budget means for wages, taxes, business, the NHS and plans to grow the economy – experts explain

For the first time in 14 years, it was a Labour chancellor who delivered the UK budget. And for the first time ever, that chancellor was a woman. But Rachel Reeves faces an almighty task: plugging a £40 billion spending gap in the knowledge that pre-election promises not to raise…

The Conversation

Catastrophic cost of Brexit on UK trade revealed in stark OBR warning

Exclusive: Figures published alongside Budget spark claims UK’s exit from EU is ‘elephant in chancellor’s study’

The Independent UK

UK economic growth upgraded this year amid ‘temporary boost’ from spending

The Office for Budget Responsibility has predicted that UK gross domestic product will grow by 1.1% in 2024.

Evening Standard

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Stephen Flynn reacts to Labour Budget as 'Scots still paying the price'

LABOUR’S first Budget in 14 years “fails to deliver” the change Scots expected from Keir Starmer, the SNP have said.

The National (Scotland)

Mortgage rates to rise after Rachel Reeves' tax, borrow and spend Budget, says official forecaster

The Chancellor has clashed with the Tories over whether her Budget would push up mortgage bills

Evening Standard

Watch: Office for Budget Responsibility responds to Rachel Reeves’ £40bn tax hikes

Watch as chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) Richard Hughes held a press conference after Labour's Budget was announced on Wednesday, 30 October.

The Independent UK

Taxes, borrowing and spending up in Rachel Reeves’ first Budget

Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she was ‘fixing the foundations of our economy’ but taxes will rise to their highest levels since the Second World War.

Evening Standard

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Economists react to the Budget with pay cut fears

LABOUR tax hikes on employers will cut pay for workers, according to a leading think tank.

The National (Scotland)

Budget 2024: Reeves reveals £40bn in tax rises as she promises to rebuild public services

Chancellor announces increases in taxation for businesses and the wealthy, and more money for the NHS and schools

The Guardian - UK

Inflation set to stay above 2% for next four years, says OBR

The fiscal watchdog said inflation is expected to be 2.6% next year, significantly ahead of a previous prediction of 1.5%.

Evening Standard

Live: Rachel Reeves delivers tax-raising Budget

In the first Labour Budget since 2010 – and the first delivered by a woman – Ms Reeves promised to ‘invest, invest, invest’.

The Independent UK

Autumn budget: Rachel Reeves raises taxes by £40bn and increases spending on NHS and schools – as it happened

Chancellor announces changes to employers’ national insurance contributions, inheritance tax, capital gains tax and other duties

The Guardian - UK

Five key charts: what will underpin 2024 budget statement by Rachel Reeves?

Labour chancellor to deliver budget after speculation over tax rises, debt rule changes and promised end to austerity

The Guardian - UK

From capital gains to NICs: tax changes to look out for in autumn 2024 budget

Rachel Reeves will seek to close £40bn Whitehall spending gap with range of potential measures

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The Independent UK

Hunt accused of trying to ‘blame the referee’ over OBR ‘black hole’ review

Tory former chancellor Jeremy Hunt has written to the UK’s top civil servant about an Office for Budget Responsibility review of his spending plans.

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Hunt calls on government not to release OBR review into his spending plans

Former chancellor accuses Rachel Reeves of politicising Office for Budget Responsibility by release on budget day

The Guardian - UK

Gold price hits fresh record high, as bitcoin also rallies – as it happened

Analysts say gold is benefited from safe-haven demand amid persistent geopolitical tensions, expectations of monetary policy easing, and mounting uncertainty surrounding the US presidential election.

Evening Standard

Budget ‘most honest’ in years, Cabinet minister claims

Pat McFadden said Rachel Reeves’ first Budget will ‘end the fiscal fiction of things being announced which had no money set aside for them’.

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The Independent UK

Hunt accuses Budget watchdog of political bias

Jeremy Hunt accuses the Budget watchdog of failing to be impartial since the Labour Party came into office

The Guardian - UK

OBR to publish breakdown of claimed £22bn ‘black hole’ on budget day

Former chancellor Jeremy Hunt says decision to publish findings of review on Wednesday is ‘significant concern’

The Conversation

In her first budget, the chancellor faces a minefield of risks

Ahead of the new government’s first budget on October 30, chancellor Rachel Reeves has revealed her determination to change borrowing rules that will allow her to boost investment spending.

Evening Standard

UK borrowing surges past official forecasts ahead of Budget

The ONS said public sector net borrowing in the first half of the financial year stood at £79.6 billion, £6.7 billion higher than forecast by the OBR.

The National (Scotland)

Labour's £40bn black hole 'the same as Brexit costs UK annually', figures show

THE Labour Government is facing pressure to be “honest” about the impact of Brexit ahead of their first Budget – after a minister admitted…

The National (Scotland)

Labour plan to stick with Tories £1.3bn benefits cuts branded 'utterly shameless'

THE Labour Government will press ahead with £1.3 billion in annual cuts to UK sickness benefits which was previously announced by the Tories,…

The Independent UK

Does the drop in inflation mean things are going to get better?

As the CPI shows a fall in the overall rate at which prices are rising, Sean O’Grady looks at what it might mean for those of us hoping for an improvement in our everyday finances – and for the chancellor, too, as she prepares to announce her first Budget in…

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