Chancellor Rachel Reeves has had to watch the UK economy trudge along since she took up residence at 11 Downing Street. But ...

Around 10,000 civil service jobs are expected to go and Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledged “day-to-day spending will be reduced by £6.1bn by 2029-30” in her hunt for savings. Details of how ...

Rachel Reeves’s performance rating as Chancellor has neared the same level as Kwasi Kwarteng’s following his disastrous mini-Budget. Her approval ranking of -32 following this week’s spring statement ...

Things can only get worse for Chancellor Rachel Reeves from here ... But at least Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt put us back onto the path to growth, with the economy rising 1.2% in the first ...

Jeremy Hunt, the former UK Conservative chancellor who dealt with the economic fallout of Liz Truss’s “mini” Budget, has been ...

When Rachel Reeves stands up in the Commons to deliver ... fix the deficit left behind by Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt, and give herself a bit of “headroom” for bad times – just in case.

For the Chancellor Rachel Reeves, launching a Spring Statement on Wednesday with weak public finances, stubbornly stalled growth, depressing forecasts and a party rebellious over sweeping welfare cuts ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has already had £5bn wiped off her headroom, a calculation by Bloomberg Economics has suggested.

But not if you are Rachel Reeves, whose Spring Statement ... As I pointed out to Reeves’s predecessor Jeremy Hunt, when he asked me about this, my father would have been much happier not to ...

But speaking to LBC on Sunday, Mr Hunt said the chancellor must go even further and ... extra hospital appointments and police back on the beat." Chancellor Rachel Reeves arrives at Downing Street.

Rachel Reeves has insisted her spending cuts are ... Similarly, former chancellor Jeremy Hunt did not carry a red box when he delivered his final Autumn Statement in November 2023.

Rachel Reeves is preparing for another blame game ... policies are taken forward in the first place. Adam Smith, Jeremy Hunt’s chief of staff between 2022 and 2024, recalls that the then ...