Rachel Reeves, Budget
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They’re highly paid, gaining power and influence — and about to get a reality check on their own personal balance sheets.
RACHEL Reeves’ Budget was last night blasted as a bonanza for benefit claimants — by critics including her own uncle. Terry Smith, 73, joined a long line of detractors after the Chancellor
Rachel Reeves' tax-hiking Budget has backfired spectacularly, with bookies slashing odds on her leaving the job in 2026 to just 1/2 after the announcement.
Neil Kinnock, who called for the two-child benefit limit to be scrapped, says the Chancellor's decision to remove the policy is a 'fine way of combatting child poverty and good for the economy'
Reeves and Starmer swerved the alternative of a righteous public execution: breaking the letter of their pledge by openly raising tax rates to enable a fast delivery of “change” in public services. This is therefore a defensive budget, and their caution is understandable.
JOBLESS parents hailed Rachel Reeves’ quids-for-kids Budget as “a dream come true” yesterday and vowed to cash in by sparking a baby boom. They spoke of their joy after the Chancellor scrapped the
Richard Hughes has written to the Chancellor and Commons Treasury Committee chair Dame Meg Hillier to apologise for the incident