Allies insist that, after a gloomy start in the job, the chancellor had long planned to shift up a gear – but her announcement of a third Heathrow runway and a ‘Silicon Valley’ from Oxford to ...

Mel Stride said: “The biggest barriers to growth in this country are Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer and their job destroying budget - and nothing in the Chancellor’s speech proved otherwise.

A fourth-generation farmer has branded Rachel Reeves’s Budget an “insult to working people”. Michael Dart, who runs Darts ...

Rachel Reeves’s much-trailed speech today is a ... However, her speech in Oxfordshire felt like another Budget speech only three months after she delivered her first one, as she listed ...

Analysts warned the Chancellor her split between spending cuts and higher taxes was "similar to that seen in unsuccessful ...

The chancellor says the expansion of Europe's busiest airport is "badly needed" - but the Green Party's Sian Berry calls it "the most irresponsible announcement from any government I have seen since ...

WITHIN hours of Rachel Reeves giving a speech about boosting economic growth, my hairdresser tearfully shut her salon after a decade in business. She says Labour’s Budget destroyed her dream.