“It’s also possible that Chancellor Reeves opts to raise stealth taxes, via an extension of the fiscal drag to pay for a ...

Rachel Reeves faces a tough choice between £12billion in tax rises or significant spending cuts to meet Sir Keir Starmer's ...

Rachel Reeves has changed the current tax-free death in service payments - the money given to families of deceased Armed Forces members - and imposed a cut of up to 40%. From April 2027, grieving ...

Economists have warned that the Chancellor will need to either hike taxes or slash public sector budgets by £6bn annually ...

Defence spending will be in the headlines this week as Keir Starmer races to Paris for crisis talks over Ukraine.

Reeves has taken the decision largely to brazen out the difficult time rather than try to rebuild her reputation or turn into ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has hinted that she is willing to commit to a rise in defence spending sooner rather than later ...

Sir Keir Starmer is reportedly set to overrule Rachel Reeves and call for increased military spending after a defence summit ...

With Sir Keir Starmer under mounting pressure to boost the UK’s defence budget, General Sir Nick Carter said the UK’s ...

Britain spends 2.3 per cent of its GDP on defence and Starmer has promised to set out a “pathway” to increasing that to 2.5 per cent, at a cost of between £5bn and £6bn a year — equivalent to around ...

David Lammy has warned Rachel Reeves that defence spending may need to treble to Cold War levels if Russia is allowed to win ...