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Rachel Reeves pledges to support working families and reduce waiting times with looming Budget

The chancellor is widely expected to raise levies on Wednesday to help close a multi-billion pound spending gap

The Independent UK

Workers’ pensions expected to soak up costs if Reeves taxes salary sacrifice schemes

Reeves faces employer backlash over a rumoured raid on salary sacrifice schemes

The Independent UK

Relief for rail passengers as fare freeze in England announced for 2026

Chancellor will confirm the measure, intended to help commuters on expensive routes, in her budget speech

The Guardian - UK

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Burnham heads list of candidates by Labour members to replace Starmer

The Greater Manchester mayor is one of four Labour politicians, including Angela Rayner, Ed Miliband and Wes Streeting, who Labour Party members would vote for to replace Keir Starmer, according to a new poll

The Independent UK

Reeves targets cost of living with rail fares freeze amid fears over Budget tax rises

The chancellor hopes measures to tackle the cost of living will offset anger over tax rises

The Independent UK

Reeves to announce £1.5bn boost in EV subsidies amid pay-per-mile concerns

Industry experts welcome extra incentives but fear a consultation on a mileage tax sends mixed messages

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves finds £1.5bn to subsidise electric vehicles in net zero drive

The chancellor will take on the climate sceptics in the Tories and Reform with a push to help people buy EVs

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Peers move to ban sex-selective abortions to ‘wreck’ decriminalisation law

Peers plan to push an amendment which would ban women having sex-selective abortions in a move campaigners believe is meant to wreck attempts to decrominalise terminations

The Independent UK

Facing facts on property tax: Rachel Reeves’s Budget options as she hunts for billions

BUDGET 2025: With Labour’s Budget imminent, the chancellor faces a £22bn hole and a narrowing set of promises on tax. Property, long the quiet corner of the system, may finally be in her sights. Here Sean O’Grady and Albert Toth analyse the options available to Reeves

The Independent UK

Senior Labour MPs demand Reeves U-turns on foreign cuts

Commons committee chairs and former ministers sign a letter demanding a roadmap to restore the aid budget in full amid fears there could be further cuts

The Independent UK

Voices: ‘Calling her Rachel from accounts is unfair and sexist’: Readers call out gendered attacks on Reeves

YOUR VIEWS: Many in our community have highlighted that much of the pre-Budget criticism aimed at the chancellor carries sexist undertones

The Independent UK

A make-or-break budget: inside the Treasury before Labour’s crucial day

From the outside, the run-up to Rachel Reeves’s announcement has looked chaotic, and many see the future of the chancellor and PM in the balance

The Guardian - UK

Will pay-per-mile raise Reeves money or drive people away from electric vehicles?

Need for new road taxes is clear – but there are concerns that pricing plan could stall transition away from petrol

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves and the hospitality jobs bloodbath

Labour’s policies have dealt a huge blow to an industry that was already struggling — now thousands are paying the price, writes Jonathan Prynn

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Voters could abandon centrist parties if budget fails, warns former cabinet secretary

Simon Case says voters will look elsewhere if chancellor cannot find solutions to tax, spending and debt problems

Evening Standard

Starmer refuses to rule out manifesto-busting tax rises in Budget

The Prime Minister declined to recommit to manifesto pledges on tax despite being asked 12 times during a broadcast interview

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer refuses to rule out manifesto-busting tax rises 12 times in TV interview

Labour prime minister came under pressure over Rachel Reeves’s upcoming Budget while on a trip to the G20 summit in South Africa

Evening Standard

Immigration enforcement officers raided Sadaf, in Westbourne Grove, following a ‘tip off’

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PM says leaders should ‘stick to their word’ but fails to reaffirm tax pledge

The Prime Minister repeatedly declined to rule out hitting working people with extra tax in the Budget.

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in the roof

The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Evening Standard

Fact check: What has Labour pledged on income tax?

Ahead of next Wednesday’s Budget, Full Fact looks at the detail of Labour’s manifesto commitments.

The Independent UK

Top member of Reeves’ Budget team previously backed plans to hit small businesses

Industry leaders say the government ‘would be out of its mind’ to adopt the proposals

Evening Standard

Any salary sacrifice clampdown ‘would hit pension savers, firms and economy’

Pensions UK and the Federation of Small Businesses have sent a joint letter to Chancellor Rachel Reeves, urging her not to change salary sacrifice.

The Independent UK

Here’s how you can become an ISA millionaire as numbers hit record high

Some investors now have ISAs worth in excess of £4m

Evening Standard

Starmer dismisses coup talk as wasted time and praises Burnham’s work as mayor

Last week’s extraordinary briefing war within the Labour Party focused attention on the Prime Minister’s position.

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