Where is growth in the Budget?

Rachel Reeves and the government have missed a real opportunity to put our country on a growth trajectory in this Budget.

Why Britain’s middle class feels squeezed

Rachel Reeves has pulled a staggering £66bn from the UK economy: £40bn in the October 2024 Budget, largely from businesses, and another £26bn in the November 2025 Budget, hitting workers, the wealthy and businesses to fund higher welfare spending...

British government borrowing went to a record 128 billion pounds in the first three months of the 2020/21 financial year, when Covid-19 lockdown measures were tightest, more than double the entire previous year’s borrowing



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