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Budget blow for Reeves as UK’s key economic forecast slashed

Exclusive: Budget watchdog is set to downgrade a key economic performance indicator for the UK in a move that could drive tax hikes – as chancellor tries to shift blame on to Tories

The Independent UK

Labour focuses on threat posed by Farage as Starmer prepares for conference

Sir Keir Starmer said Reform UK’s policies would tear the country apart as he vowed Labour would offer an alternative vision of ‘national renewal’.

Evening Standard

Starmer prepares to take on ‘toxic’ Reform as he arrives in Liverpool for Labour conference

The prime minister said Reform UK’s policies would tear the country apart as he vowed Labour would offer an alternative vision of ‘national renewal’

The Independent UK

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Labour seeks ‘ambitious’ youth mobility scheme with EU

Chancellor says plan would allow thousands of young Europeans to temporarily live and work in UK, and vice versa

The Guardian - UK

Starmer asks Conservative peer to write planning bill to block judicial reviews

Exclusive: One option could be to leave treaty that allows legal claims against projects such as Heathrow expansion

The Guardian - UK

Reeves plans ambitious Brexit reset for young people to boost economic growth

The chancellor claimed the ‘youth experience scheme’ would reduce the need for tax rises in the forthcoming Budget

The Independent UK

Starmer brands Reform UK an ‘enemy’ of Britain ahead of Labour conference

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has meanwhile said she wants to sign an ‘ambitious’ new youth migration scheme with the EU.

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Starmer brands Reform UK ‘an enemy’ as he travels to Labour conference

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has meanwhile said she wants to sign an ‘ambitious’ new youth migration scheme with the EU.

The Independent UK

Reeves takes aim at Burnham’s ‘in hock to bond markets’ comment

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will tell Labour activists at the Liverpool conference that now ‘is not time’ for Labour infighting.

Evening Standard

Labour must improve lives by time it leaves office, says Reeves

The Chancellor was speaking to the Global Progress Action Summit.

Evening Standard

Treasury ‘putting the squeeze’ on OBR over Labour growth plans amid tensions over downgrade

Rachel Reeves may have to find up to £30bn in tax rises or spending cuts if forecaster revisits expectations

The Guardian - UK

Will Labour’s climate plan survive the squeeze of tight budgets and rightwing attacks?

As Donald Trump calls climate change a ‘con job’ and Reform UK weaponises net zero, Starmer faces pressure to hold the line on commitments

The Guardian - UK

Liverpool headteachers warn Chancellor their schools are at breaking point

Heads have signed an open letter to Rachel Reeves calling on Labour to ‘restore the achievements of the last Labour government’ as conference starts

Evening Standard

Sir Keir Starmer says he is ‘absolutely committed’ to Northern Powerhouse Rail

The delayed Northern Powerhouse Rail plans are to be unveiled ‘in the coming weeks’, a Government source has said.

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The Independent UK

‘Near impossible’ for poorer families to afford food and bills as UK faces decade of falling incomes, report warns

The findings will pile further pressure on the chancellor to scrap the two-child benefit cap long blamed for keeping children in poverty

Evening Standard

London losing billions of pounds of tourist spending to rival European cities says new report

New figures show spending in Paris, Milan and Madrid soars as London flatlines

The Independent UK

Starmer under mounting pressure to lift two-child benefit cap

Lifting the two-child benefit cap is set to be the top recommendation of Keir Starmer’s child poverty taskforce

The Independent UK

National Manufacturing Day to highlight jobs available in the sector

Companies across the country will host students and workers looking for a career change

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Evening Standard

Delayed Northern Powerhouse Rail plans to be unveiled ‘in coming weeks’

The announcement is expected to set out the scope and funding for the project.

The Independent UK

Plans to revive Northern Powerhouse Rail delayed again

The NPR project was first proposed by former Tory chancellor George Osborne in 2014

The National (Scotland)

Rachel Reeves 'taxi tax' plans blasted as attack on poor and disabled

AN SNP MSP has said that plans by the UK Government to impose the standard VAT rate on all taxi fares would hit poorer, disabled and older people…

The Guardian - UK

BT boss says costs ‘inflicted’ by UK are 10 times those faced by European sector

Allison Kirkby warns that the November budget could be ‘very difficult’ for the chancellor

Evening Standard

Reeves urged to reverse ‘rash’ tax commitments and reform system by think tank

The Institute for Government said Labour’s ‘unrealistic’ approach to tax has left the Chancellor reaching for ‘piecemeal changes’.

The Independent UK

Reeves must abandon manifesto tax pledges, think tank says amid £30bn Budget black hole

The chancellor is facing mounting pressure to hike income tax amid an expectation that £30bn worth of tax rises will be needed in the Budget

The Independent UK

As growth hopes fade, shrinking Reeves has a mountain to climb

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: A dour economic forecast has left the beleaguered chancellor grasping for fiscal breathing space in her make-or-break Budget

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