The business secretary will next week hold talks with dozens of private sector bosses as the government contends with a significant corporate backlash to...
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The cost of government borrowing has jumped, while UK stocks and the pound are up, as markets digest the news of billions in borrowing and tax rises announced...
First things first: don’t panic. What you need to know is this. The budget has not gone down well in financial markets. Indeed, it’s gone down...
The football financier Keith Harris is spearheading a bid to buy a 45% stake in the Premier League football club Crystal Palace in a deal that could be worth...
The next five years will hurt disposable income and wages will stagnate further following Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget, an influential thinktank has...
The chancellor cannot rule out more tax rises in the next five years, despite raising the burden to its highest level since comparable records began. Speaking...
The 2024 Autumn Budget in one word? Big. What we got from Rachel Reeves today was, in economic terms, a major departure from economic policy as we’ve...
Are you richer or poorer? Use our budget calculator to see how you have been affected by Labour’s first budget in more than 14 years, and the first ever...
More tax, more borrowing, more spending. This was a big budget by every measure, but will loom largest for businesses that will bear the brunt of the revenue...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has finally unveiled the budget for 2024. Here are the key points: Follow live budget updates • The budget will raise taxes by £40bn...
Taxes will increase by £40bn – and the lion’s share will come from a £25bn rise in employers’ national insurance contributions, the...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has finally unveiled the budget for 2024. Here are the key points: This page is being updated, refresh to see more as it’s...
Budgets are all about numbers. In the coming 24 hours, we’ll be engulfed with all sorts of figures – about the state of the economy, about the size...
Small businesses have called for the government to “significantly increase” the employment allowance to prevent them from having to shut down...
The minimum wage for those aged 21 years and over will rise by 6.7% to £12.21 – with pay for those aged 18 to 20 set to go up by 16.3% to £10 an hour...
The number of mortgages approved in September reached a level not seen in the two years since the Liz Truss mini-budget. According to figures from the Bank of...