Employment data shows biggest slump in five years on the eve of Chancellor’s funding allocation

Budget cuts are difficult to swallow, but there is still plenty of post-pandemic fat long overdue a trim

The Chancellor will set out her spending plans just as new figures show unemployment is up and hiring has slumped

Employment data shows biggest slump in five years on the eve of Chancellor’s funding allocation

Rachel Reeves is delivering her spending update – here are the main points

Chancellor pledges to end spending on asylum hotels in four years, as she contrasts Labour investment with Conservatives’ austerity

While the numbers may tally on paper, economists are already questioning whether they will work in reality

Chancellor pledges to deliver what the public voted for, but which departments will be forced to do so by limited means?

British families are at the mercy of this socialist’s lazy embrace of more borrowing and higher taxes

Chancellor giving interviews as UK economy shrinks by 0.3% as she faces questions over whether taxes might have to rise in the autumn

The chancellor has defended the plans set out in the spending review after the economy contracted 0.3 per cent in April

Businesses will pick up the bill for the ever-growing state at the Chancellor’s autumn Budget