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Rachel Reeves

Rachel Reeves has been Labour MP for Leeds West since 2010.
  • Commuters in silhouette cross London Bridge with umbrellas up, near the City of London's skyscrapers

    UK economy unexpectedly flatlines for second month in row

  • Rafael Behr

    Why did Starmer cut the winter fuel allowance? It’s called Treasury brain – and that spells trouble

    Rafael Behr
  • Keir Starmer speaks at the TUC conference in Brighton on 10 September 2024

    The Guardian view on Labour’s strategy: focus on fixing Britain, not fiscal deficits

    Editorial: Ministers have much bigger problems to deal with than principled dissent, and that’s where the government’s attention should be directed
  • A woman warming her hands over an electric heater at home

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Keir Starmer faces rebellion as 53 Labour MPs abstain over winter fuel and one votes with Tories – as it happened

    Conservative motion to block winter fuel payment cut defeated but 53 Labour MPs abstain and one, Jon Trickett, votes with the Tories
    • Starmer and Reeves are playing a dangerous game. How much more do they think Britain can take?

      John Harris
    • UK wages figures will affect state pension, interest rates – and Rachel Reeves

    • Reeves urged to make tax changes ‘to raise more than £20bn a year’

  • Rachel Reeves

    Chancellor faces down would-be rebels ahead of winter fuel payment vote

  • Arguments over means-testing of the winter fuel allowance have previously taken place behind closed doors in the Treasury.

    Treasury has tried to push previous chancellors to means-test winter fuel allowance

  • Rachel Reeves adressing the House of Commons in July

    Up to 50 Labour MPs could rebel over cut to winter fuel allowance

    Dozens said to be considering abstaining from Tuesday’s vote over pensioners’ payments, as PM says dealing with dissent is ‘matter for chief whip’
  • Sir Keir Starmer, during a 'pre-record' for the BBC 1 current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.

    The Guardian view on winter fuel payments: a mess of Labour’s own making over benefit cuts

    Editorial: The government wants to act tough over the public finances. But ministers look mean, unjust and politically inept
  • Andrew Rawnsley

    ‘Iron chancellor’ Rachel Reeves faces an early challenge to her authority over winter fuel payments

    Andrew Rawnsley
    Furore over cuts to the pensioner benefit is all the more potent when the left, right and centre can all find reasons to oppose the policy
  • Paul Nowak

    More than a million British workers not having a single day of paid time off, says TUC

  • Hospital operating theatre

    Three reports lay bare scale of NHS malaise. But will Rachel Reeves fund a transformation?

  • The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, holds a press conference after her statement to MPs on the state of public finances on 29 July.

    There’s no need to cut poorer pensioners’ income. Smarter winter fuel solutions are at hand

    Steve Webb
  • Energy bill on phone screen

    Reeves can loosen Britain’s purse strings: she just needs to think outside the Treasury box

  • Furore over Labour cronies ‘no worse than Tories’ in government, allies say

  • Labour ministers reveal grave concerns about winter fuel payment cut

  • Tributes adorn a green, heart-shaped London Underground-style roundel that reads 'Grenfell'

    Politics Weekly UK
    The final Grenfell inquiry report and what it means for families – Politics Weekly UK

    The Grenfell Tower fire was the result of ‘decades of failure’ by central government, the public inquiry into the catastrophe has found. John Harris looks at the findings of the seven-year report with the Guardian’s social affairs leader writer, Susanna Rustin
  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Rachel Reeves is right to scrap Jeremy Hunt’s gimmicky British Isa

    Nils Pratley
    Good riddance to Hunt’s muddled and pointless creation – prodding pension funds may do more to wake up the UK stock market
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