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Public finance

August 2024

  • The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, holds a pen in one hand as she studies some papers on her desk in 11 Downing Street.

    The Observer view on growth: Labour must be prepared to spend

  • Shona Robison speaking in Holyrood

    Scotland scraps universal winter fuel payment and prepares for more cuts

  • A night time, time-delayed sequence picture of traffic flow at the Dartford crossings on the Kent side of the Thames.

    Rachel Reeves ponders private finance to help fund £9bn Lower Thames Crossing

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    A simple solution to Rachel Reeves’ spending cuts? Stop subsidising the banks

    Larry Elliott
  • Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, in her office at no 11 Downing Street, London.

    Here’s how Rachel Reeves could plug the black hole in Britain’s finances

    Letters: Mark Bill offers the new chancellor some suggestions on raising taxes and closing loopholes. Plus letters from Joseph Koppenhout and David Tucker
  • Rachel Reeves speaks during a press conference at the Treasury (Photo by Lucy North/AFP)

    Today in Focus
    Rachel Reeves and the £22bn black hole – podcast

  • Angela Rayner announcing housing reforms in parliament.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Greens say Labour should focus more on building council homes and that new housing plan is flawed – as it happened

  • They walk side by side through the Members' Lobby

    Reeves accuses Hunt of £22bn lie; nonsense, he says. What’s the truth?

  • Rachel Reeves and Jeremy Hunt at the state opening of parliament at the Palace of Westminster on 17 July

    Hunt ‘knowingly and deliberately’ lied about finances, says Reeves

  • First Edition newsletter
    Tuesday briefing: What Rachel Reeves’ ‘tough choices’ mean for Britain

  • The billions Britain needs are at Rachel Reeves’s fingertips, and no fiscal promises need be broken

    Polly Toynbee
  • Rachel Reeves making a statement in the Commons on public finances

    Rachel Reeves pursues political prize over £22bn financial hole

  • Zoe Williams

    The politics sketch
    ‘Wows’ abound as Reeves rails against unknown unknowns

    Zoe Williams
  • Composite image of Reeves, stethoscope, construction crane and City worker

    What are Rachel Reeves’ spending cuts and how do the sums add up?

  • Rachel Reeves

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: Winter fuel payments to be restricted as Reeves says there is £22bn spending shortfall – as it happened

  • Rachel Reeves is pulling off a transparent political manoeuvre. But she’s not entirely wrong

    Jonathan Portes
  • Rachel Reeves goes back to the future with her public finances statement

  • UK public finances show £22bn fiscal hole, says Rachel Reeves - video

  • Reeves scraps social care cap and some winter fuel payments to plug ‘£22bn hole’

  • Rachel Reeves paves way for cuts and tax rises to fill shortfall left by Tories

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