As they gaze across Horse Guards Parade, some in Labour ask whether George Osborne still is today. The £5bn welfare cuts announced in advance of Rachel Reeves’s Spring Statement on Wednesday were just ...

The Chancellor will now be forced to contemplate tax rises. By George Eaton When Rachel Reeves announced her intention to hold just one “fiscal event” a year, there was much eye-rolling. Previous ...

Sir Keir Starmer has criticised the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) over its assessment of his welfare reforms. In his ...

As the nation marks the 80th anniversary of VE Day next month, Churchill's descendants will take part in a service alongside ...

“Under George Osborne and his successors, austerity Budgets led to attacks on wages, pensions and public services. “It would be wrong and misguided for Rachel Reeves to adopt the same approac ...

not least those made by George Osborne,” said Quilter-Pinner. Reeves put significant focus on the government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which was debated by MPs in parliament earlier this ...

Ms Reeves is expected to pursue budget squeezes, including a £5bn saving from benefits, amid fears she may resort to austerity-style cuts reminiscent of George Osborne in 2010. On Saturday ...

George Dibb at the Institute for Public Policy ... but this too is likely to inflame tensions given Ms Reeves has made the National Wealth Fund a key part of her growth plans.

Reeves is following a cautious approach to the predicament ... But in fact it was their decisions which brought us to this point. During austerity, George Osborne chose to ignore the low interest ...

Rachel Reeves has been warned that she has six months ... being compared to the “austerity” of former Tory chancellor George Osborne. The Office for Budget Responsibility is expected to ...

his Tory successor George Osborne, through Philip Hammond, Rishi Sunak and, very briefly, Kwasi Kwarteng, to Jeremy Hunt and now back to Labour with Rachel Reeves, their combined efforts have ...

All this points to brutal spending cuts which could even surpass George Osborne’s austerity-era blitz. Ms Reeves is attempting to fill a hole of between £15 billion and £20 billion in the ...