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UK unemployment shows surprise fall to 4.9% as pay growth drops to lowest in five years

Rachel Reeves in her last two budgets have exacerbated this, with increases in employer national

City firms bank on ‘savvy’ advertising campaign to push Brits towards investing

Rachel Reeves’ nationwide push to encourage more financial risk taking, amid fears risk-averse consumers

Government to propose electricity price changes in clean power push

Rachel Reeves and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband in separate statements on Tuesday. "For Britain and so many

UK jobs market was in a fragile state – even before Iran war threatened recovery

Rachel Reeves](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/rachel-reeves) to do more to help cushion consumers as energy costs

Ministers speak out in cabinet meeting over Starmer’s sacking of Olly Robbins

Rachel Reeves, warned the prime minister not to pick fights with officials and instead to keep

UK inflation rate rises to 3.3% in March after Iran war pushes up fuel prices

Rachel Reeves said: "This is not our war, but it is pushing up bills for families

UK undershoots annual borrowing target by £700m

Rachel Reeves’s carefully calculated fiscal “headroom” over the coming months. The government borrowed a net total

Top Cabinet Office official to give evidence to MPs about Peter Mandelson’s vetting – UK politics live

Rachel Reeves’s carefully calculated fiscal “headroom” over the coming months. **Tom Knowles** has the story

Partygate v Mandelson: Keir Starmer faces attack from his own playbook

Rachel Reeves, announced a deeply unpopular [cut to winter fuel subsidies](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/29/hospital-and-road-projects-face-cuts-to-plug-22bn-fiscal-hole-reeves-says) for pensioners

Lonely at the top: who are Keir Starmer’s allies as daunting May elections loom?

Rachel Reeves, the chancellor. McSweeney departed amid the Peter Mandelson scandal. Others, including Paul Ovenden

King Charles to meet Donald Trump off camera to avoid awkwardness

Rachel Reeves](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/15/rachel-reeves-donald-trump-iran-war-uk-us), the government is hoping the king might be able to talk

UK has wealthy Europe’s ‘third-highest’ rate of young adults not in work or study

Rachel Reeves’s £25bn rise in employer national insurance contributions (NICs)](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/30/autumn-budget-2024-rachel-reeves-tax-rises-public-services), as well

UK faces £35bn hit and risk of recession this year over impact of Iran war, thinktank warns

Rachel Reeves, has said that “nothing is off the table”](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/11/nothing-off-the-table-as-rachel-reeves-considers-targeted-support-over-energy-costs) as the government

Labour MPs say ‘endless drama’ of leadership speculation must stop

Rachel Reeves will be kept as chancellor whatever happens, to avoid spooking the financial markets

UK firms in ‘critical financial stress’ jump by a third as costs rise, report finds

Rachel Reeves, for [a series of tax rises](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/02/reeves-defends-40bn-tax-increase-in-autumn-budget-as-businesses-prepare-for-nics-hike) imposed on businesses over

‘People can see – but can’t use it’: mystery of completed East-West Rail line that has no passenger trains

Rachel Reeves, laying out her economic vision, cited it as the “transport link needed to make

Raise tax on alcohol and junk food to cut deaths from liver disease, experts say

Rachel Reeves’s last budget in December that [duty on beer should rise](https://www.ias.org.uk

The city caught in the middle of the big energy shift debate

Rachel Reeves to move to a system under which windfall taxes only apply when the oil price

Last Beefeater and Brewers Fayre restaurants to close, with loss of 3,800 jobs, Premier Inn owner says

Rachel Reeves’s 2025 budget tax policies would cost it an extra £50m this year

Bank of England leaves interest rates on hold at 3.75%

Rachel Reeves boasted that the six cuts in interest rates since her party came to power