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  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Reeves to spare PE bosses top UK tax rate in compromise on ‘loophole’

    Chancellor wants to raise revenue from pay through carried interest without driving investors away

    Rachel Reeves
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Britain’s debt rule is not fit for purpose

    The chancellor should begin moving the country to a more dynamic fiscal framework

    Rachel Reeves
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    UK government spending
    Rachel Reeves vows to ‘invest, invest, invest’

    FT exclusive: Chancellor seeks to reassure investors that ‘guardrails’ will be placed around extra borrowing for investment

    Rachel Reeves meets workers during a visit to the Encirc Glass factory in Chester
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Wealth managers warn Reeves of pensions withdrawals rush ahead of UK Budget

    Increasing number of people are pulling money from retirement pots early because of tax uncertainty

    The City of London skyline
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Q&AFT subscriber event
    Labour’s Budget: how will the UK secure economic growth?

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  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Pension tax breaks: what’s in the Budget line of fire?

    Analysts lay out the range of options at the chancellor’s disposal as Starmer warns of ‘decisions’ on the horizon

    Montage shows a crowd of workers, the HMRC logo, pound notes and a funeral casket
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    UK government spending
    Reeves raises hopes of investment surge as she attacks Tory plans

    UK chancellor vows to avoid Jeremy Hunt’s ‘mistakes’ and stokes optimism that spending could surpass manifesto

    Britain’s chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    UK politics
    UK gives Chagos Islands to Mauritius to secure military base

    Deal comes after 50 years of wrangling over the remote but strategically important archipelago

    Demonstrators from the Chagos Islands hold up flags in Port Louis, Mauritius, in 2019
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    The Big Read
    Can Labour find a way out of its own Budget traps?

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves says the government has a growth plan, but self-imposed red lines leave little room for manoeuvre

    Montage of four images of Rachel Reeves face with different expressions against a red background
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Anjana Ahuja
    ‘Evidence banks’ can drive better decisions in public life

    From climate change to crime, repositories of good quality information are essential

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    UK tax
    Business owners look at leaving UK over prospect of capital gains tax rise

    Wealth advisers report a jump in inquiries ahead of Budget on October 30

    Montage shows couple with bags against the HMRC logo
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Reeves unlikely to cut pension tax relief for higher earners, says report

    LCP consultancy argues chancellor does not want to alienate better paid public sector staff

    Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, gives her speech during the Labour party conference
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    Statutory maternity pay is ‘excessive’, says Badenoch

    Row breaks out over leadership contender’s comments as Tory annual conference gets under way in Birmingham

    Kemi Badenoch
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Personal Finance
    UK pensions in crosshairs if Reeves waters down non-doms overhaul

    Placating wealthy foreigners could shift chancellor’s focus elsewhere, experts say

  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    UK public finances
    UK confronts massive funding gap to tackle crumbling infrastructure

    Rachel Reeves is looking at loosening fiscal rules to allow her to increase borrowing to pay for investment

    Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Gus O'Donnell
    Ditch the last government’s absurd debt rule and invest to grow

    Current rules hem the chancellor in — this Budget can make a start on ways to attract and measure investment

    Wind turbines in the North Sea of the coast of Essex
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Non-dom tax status
    UK chancellor may drop inheritance tax hit to non-doms

    Government officials said no decision had been made but Reeves would not press ahead with policy that did not raise any money

  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    UK immigration
    Overseas student and worker curbs will cost UK business over £40bn

    Home Office assessments come as new Labour government presses ahead with curbs on immigration

    Students from LSE celebrate graduating
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    UK public finances
    Gilt investors urge Reeves to keep investment ambitions in check

    Markets on edge ahead of overhaul of fiscal rules that could result in tens of billions of pounds of extra borrowing capacity

  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    UK immigration
    UK settles legal aid fee dispute with immigration lawyers

    Law firm Duncan Lewis drops case against government after justice secretary agrees to review pay

    Criminal defence barristers gather outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London to protest over legal aid fee rates
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    UK public finances
    Highest earners in UK public service take biggest hit to pay

    Doctors, teachers and police have slipped down the earnings distribution since 2007

    Teaching staff and NEU members attend a rally outside Leeds Art Gallery in February
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Non-dom tax status
    UK chancellor ready to water down planned tax raid on ‘non-doms’

    Rachel Reeves had hoped to raise £1bn a year by toughening a proposed Tory crackdown on wealthy foreigners

    UK chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    UK defence spending
    UK public awareness of military threat is ‘alarmingly low’

    Lords committee says mooted boost in defence spending ‘may not be enough’

    British soldiers take part in a Nato training exercise in Estonia in May
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    UK economy
    UK will increase capital spending in the Budget, Starmer signals

    Prime minister hints he backs changes to Treasury fiscal rules to boost investment

    Sir Keir Starmer speaks in an interview
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Starmer reveals what needs to get ‘worse’ before it gets better

    PM points to disruption caused by building and hints at need to ‘properly fund policies’ ahead of expected tax rises in Budget

    Keir Starmer at Labour party conference
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