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Senior UK ministers deride Rachel Reeves’s reported plan of year-long rent freeze

UK ministers deride Rachel Reeves’s reported plan of year-long rent freeze Senior ministers have poured scorn on the idea of freezing private sector rents for a year, less than 48 hours after

Reform challenges other parties to cost their policies in heated Welsh election debate

freeze leading to rent controls," he said. "That's things like free bus travels for under 22s, £1 for everyone else." Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds said she would not publish her spending plans

Tax cuts and cost of living help proposed by Labour-linked groups allied to Streeting and Burnham

UK’s fiscal rules which determine how much the government can borrow and stripping the Treasury of its responsibility to deliver economic growth. In her essay, Haigh, the former transport secretary and a key ally

No 10 dismisses Reeves’s reported plan for freeze on private rents

UK [will be hit harder](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/14/iran-war-global-recession-imf-uk-growth-forecasts-oil-prices) than any other developed country by inflation resulting from the Iran war, which has shut down shipping lanes and sent the price of oil soaring. Experts

Reeves makes case to remain as chancellor with reports Burnham may favour Miliband

UK supporter who interrupted an interview she was giving to shout abuse about Starmer and the Labour party. “I love our country, and one of the things about our country is good manners,” she called