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The Latest Breaking News on OPINION - The Standard View: Every group has plenty to fear from a Halloween Budget

OPINION - The Standard View: Every group has plenty to fear from a Halloween Budget

Fear is the watchword for this most important of Budgets. For those who own shares, or second homes, or cannot conceivably be defined as “working people” (whoever they are), the fear is of tax rises. From capital gains to pension relief and inheritance tax, the Chancellor is looking to raise…

Evening Standard

Labour-backing journalist makes stunning Keir Starmer admission

A LABOUR-BACKING journalist made a stunning admission saying Keir Starmer “essentially said whatever he felt he needed to get elected” ...

The National (Scotland)

'Duped': Anas Sarwar pledges end of austerity – despite Budget of cuts and tax rises

THE Labour Government Budget “will end the era of austerity”, Anas Sarwar has claimed – on the same day as the Prime Minister warned that…

The National (Scotland)

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Does Britain have a working-class parliament? What Labour’s election win means for representation

After the 2024 election, the British parliament looks very different, with a large Labour majority for the first time in more than a decade. While we don’t yet have a full analysis of the socioeconomic background of the new crop of MPs, the Sutton Trust calculated that 23% were privately…

The Conversation

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’.

Evening Standard

Budget 2024: Keir Starmer hit with growing row over billions in tax rises 'breaking' Labour manifesto

Cabinet minister Pat McFadden denies Labour ‘misled’ voters during the election campaign

Evening Standard

Rachel Reeves’s first budget offers a chance to break out of the doom loop. Here’s how she should do it

It’s a tall order but Labour has a chance to improve people’s lives in both the short and long term, says economics and public policy professor Jonathan Portes

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What the papers say – October 28

Here are the stories making headlines to start off the week.

The Independent UK

Creaking public services are costing companies in absent staff, employers tell TUC

Union group urges chancellor to better fund health, social care and childcare to get staff back to work and boost productivity

The Guardian - UK

George Kerevan: How a Trump win would undermine Rachel Reeves’s Budget game plan

HANG on to your economic hats. On Wednesday, Rachel Reeves will present her long-awaited Budget. Keir Starmer’s Labour Party will have to put up…

The National (Scotland)

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 Independent UK

Rachel Reeves borrows George Osborne’s mantra in ‘strivers’ Budget

But Keir Starmer vows no return to austerity as he paves way for tax rises and spending cuts

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer gambles tens of billions more in tax and borrow Budget to invest in ‘new future’ for Britain

The Prime Minister warns the nation of the ‘harsh light of fiscal reality’

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer vows to ‘embrace harsh light of fiscal reality’ ahead of budget

PM will defend Labour plans in speech and insist working people need better public services more than lower taxes

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Evening Standard

Starmer: Budget will ’embrace harsh light of fiscal reality’

The Prime Minister will warn of ‘unprecedented’ economic challenges as he delivers a speech on Monday.

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer will ‘embrace harsh light of fiscal reality’ ahead of Budget

The prime minister will warn of ‘unprecedented’ economic challenges as he delivers a speech in the West Midlands today

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