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Everything you need to know about Rachel Reeves’ Autumn Budget 2024 and what it means for you

Chancellor poked fun at Rishi Sunak, Kemi Badenoch and Kwasi Kwarteng in a budget tradition

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has pledged £1.4 billion to meet a target of rebuilding 50 schools in England a year. The funding boost follows the news of slow progress on the government’s school rebuilding programme. This effort began in 2020 but has been under particular scrutiny since the closure of school…

Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced almost £70 billion of extra spending each year in her maiden budget.

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Rachel Reeves’ Budget on Wednesday afternoon sought to address a ‘black hole’ in finances.

How Rachel Reeves’s measures on pensions, income tax, stamp duty and fuel duty will affect UK consumers

Chancellor heeds calls long made on the left for spending to match other European countries with rise of £70bn a year

Forecaster says extra spending revealed by Rachel Reeves will give only a short-term lift to economy

Rachel Reeves said the Scottish Government will receive an additional £3.4 billion in 2025-26 due to her tax and spending decisions.

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…