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Budget 2025: key points at a glance

Rachel Reeves is announcing her financial update – here are the main points, with political analysis

Budget 2025 – follow live

The chancellor’s opening remarks were somewhat.. - source: The Guardian - 26.11.2025


Rachel Reeves poised to unveil tax rises worth £26bn in budget, leak reveals

Surprise early release of OBR documents shows chancellor doubling her fiscal headroom

Rachel Reeves’s budget is expected to announce tax increases worth £26bn to more than double her.. - source: The Guardian - 26.11.2025


Budget 2025 live: Rachel Reeves to set out tax and spending changes

Chancellor to deliver fiscal statement, billed as decisive moment for fate of Starmer government, at 12.30pm

Tax, pensions, savings: what to expect in the budget

Reeves’s.. - source: The Guardian - 26.11.2025


Rachel Reeves looks to reassure bond markets with tax-heavy budget – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as the City braces for the budget

Millions of UK workers to get pay rise as Reeves plans increased minimum wage

What to.. - source: The Guardian - 26.11.2025


Rachel Reeves’s high-stakes autumn budget in five key charts

Chancellor to set out tax and spending plans shaped by weak productivity, high borrowing costs and cost of living crisis

What to expect: tax, VAT, pensions, savings and more

Rachel.. - source: The Guardian - 26.11.2025


Millions of UK workers to get pay rise as Reeves plans increased minimum wage

Chancellor says people must be ‘properly rewarded for their hard work’ with 16- to 21-year-olds also in line for raise

Millions of low-paid workers in the UK are to get a pay rise of.. - source: The Guardian - 25.11.2025


B&Q owner looks fine – fears for other firms if ‘softening’ retail market turns soggy

Kingfisher raises profit expectations for financial year from £480m-£540m to £540m-£570m

Just what an embattled chancellor needs on the eve of a tax-raising budget: a leading retailer.. - source: The Guardian - 25.11.2025


Mayors in England to get power to impose tourism tax on overnight visitors at ‘modest’ rate – UK politics live

Government announces overnight levy ahead of tomorrow’s budget

John McFall is standing down early as Lord Speaker in the House of Lords so that he can care for his wife, Joan, who has.. - source: The Guardian - 25.11.2025


What to expect in budget 2025: tax, VAT, pensions, savings and more

Here’s what Rachel Reeves is tipped to announce after months of speculation

Could you do better than Reeves as chancellor? Play our interactive budget game

Every chancellor likes to.. - source: The Guardian - 25.11.2025


Sterling volatility expected around the budget; German economy stagnating – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

Reeves expected to reveal cut in growth forecasts for next five years in budget

We have confirmation this morning that.. - source: The Guardian - 25.11.2025


AI could replace 3m low-skilled jobs in the UK by 2035, research finds

Trades, machine operations and administrative roles are most at-risk, says leading educational research charity

Up to 3m low-skilled jobs could disappear in the UK by 2035 because of.. - source: The Guardian - 25.11.2025


Reeves expected to reveal cut in growth forecasts for next five years in budget

OBR has reportedly downgraded predictions after review that blames lack of investment under Tories

Could you do better than Reeves as chancellor? Play our interactive budget.. - source: The Guardian - 24.11.2025


Labour will listen to bosses’ concerns on workers’ rights, says business secretary

Peter Kyle tells CBI conference he will ensure firms do not lose as a result of overhaul

The business secretary, Peter Kyle, has opened the door to bosses to influence Labour’s landmark.. - source: The Guardian - 24.11.2025


Business secretary dismisses claim ‘shambolic’ pre-budget uncertainty has caused hit to growth – UK politics live

Peter Kyle defends government as Reeves faces criticism about pre-budget briefings ahead of Wednesday announcement

Joel Hills, business and economics editor at ITV News, was not impressed.. - source: The Guardian - 24.11.2025


BHP walks away from latest takeover approach for mining rival Anglo – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as BHP is (again) rebuffed by mining rival Anglo American

One banker has told the Financial Times that it is a surprise that BHP.. - source: The Guardian - 24.11.2025


Unions urge Rachel Reeves to deliver ‘living standards budget’

TUC calls on chancellor to focus on child poverty and upping minimum wage as businesses call for change of course

Reeves promises to ‘grip the cost of living’ in autumn budget

You.. - source: The Guardian - 23.11.2025


Has Britain become an economic colony?

The UK could’ve been a true tech leader – but it has cheerfully submitted to US dominance in a way that could cost it dear

Two and a half centuries ago, the American colonies launched a.. - source: The Guardian - 23.11.2025


China has brought millions out of poverty. The US has not – by choice

Despite the US’s economic success, income inequality remains breathtaking. But this is no glitch – it’s the system

The Chinese did rather well in the age of globalization. In 1990,.. - source: The Guardian - 23.11.2025


EU and US to restart trade talks as sticking points on July tariff deal remain

US officials to hold high-level talks in Brussels amid unhappiness in Washington at slow action on July deal

The EU and US are set to restart trade negotiations next week after a two-month.. - source: The Guardian - 22.11.2025


A make-or-break budget: inside the Treasury before Labour’s crucial day

From the outside, the run-up to Rachel Reeves’s announcement has looked chaotic, and many see the future of the chancellor and PM in the balance

Every budget could be described, to a.. - source: The Guardian - 22.11.2025


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