Rachel Reeves’s great gamble
The Chancellor’s £40bn tax rises have thrown down a challenge to business.
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Labour has imposed a £19.5bn stealth tax
The biggest revenue-raising item in the Budget will be paid for by employees.
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Rachel Reeves escapes her own straitjacket
The Chancellor will use her Budget to tax and borrow far more than originally planned.
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The wails on the bus
The row over the £3 fare cap is telling of Labour’s comms struggles.
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Will Labour pay for its inconsistency on tax and spend?
If public services fail to improve, the government will be politically vulnerable.
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The rentier economy should be Labour’s priority in this Budget
The manifesto promise on leasehold reform must not be broken.
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Paul Johnson: “Labour might get lucky on growth”
The IFS director on Rachel Reeves’s first Budget and why he’s standing down next year.
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Labour has laid a trap for the Tories
The Budget will be used to cast the next Conservative leader as a threat to public services.
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Why Rachel Reeves should crash the housing market
It might take ten years and a lot of shouting, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth doing.
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The Budget must give people hope
The Starmer team knows it cannot succeed by offering voters no short-term improvements.
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Debunking the fiscal black hole myth
Rachel Reeves is the latest chancellor to lean on a tired cliché.
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Can Rachel Reeves win the argument?
The Budget will seek to define Britain’s past – and its future.
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The left must resist the seductions of austerity
Britain and Germany are walking into the same fiscal doom loop.
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Labour’s Budget dilemma
The tension between a pledge to limit tax rises and the party’s rule against borrowing for day-to-day spending is showing.
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Taking on the Treasury
Rachel Reeves has more power than any chancellor in recent history. She should use it.
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Will Rachel Reeves’ tax gamble pay off?
The Chancellor knows that Labour’s re-election depends on improving public services.
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Rachel Reeves: Richest will bear the brunt of Budget tax rises
In an exclusive interview to be published in next week’s New Statesman, the Chancellor reveals her fiscal priorities.
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Is Rachel Reeves facing a Liz Truss moment?
Higher borrowing costs should not deter the Chancellor from investing in growth.
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What Rachel Reeves can learn from Keynes
The economist’s older, weirder and wilder models could unlock Labour’s investment dilemma.
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Labour’s battle for Britain
After a brutal summer, the government is already disliked. Can Keir Starmer reassert the authority of the state?
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