Rachel Reeves

If Labour raises taxes and the uber-wealthy begin to leave, will anybody care?

Clearly, the chancellor has no intention of courting short-term popularity as the budget looms

Whatever Rachel Reeves announces will make her deeply unpopular. But that won’t necessarily mean she’s wrong

The IFS delivers a gloomy verdict that will put pressure on the chancellor for tax rises and spending cuts

Rachel Reeves will have less to spend - but will argue the rise in applications vindicates her strategy

As October 30 looms, Reeves must prepare to perform a fiscal juggling act

The one thing you can rely on at party get-togethers is lots of booze

UK government debt is set to treble catastrophically in the next 50 years. Can Labour do anything about it?

If Rachel Reeves wants to be a truly reforming chancellor, she should embrace a more radical approach to accounting

The same tax rate for earnings and wealth would be a seismic change that raised billions

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has some tough decisions to make in October’s budget, but has options to achieve growth and avoid austerity

The government has demonstrated a conviction that dangerous behaviour has to have consequences

Falling interest rates have nothing to do with Labour’s new chancellor - but she will definitely take them

Rachel Reeves’s cuts come only after the previous government squandered vast sums of money

The chancellor ripped up Tory legacy dreams and made the right call on the Winter Fuel Payment

Rachel Reeves delivered controversial cuts.. and then came 'proof' the Tories misled the nation

Keir Starmer could have been bolder when laying out his government’s agenda - and he may come to regret it

After the election, Rachel Reeves is in the perfect position to exert a little gentle blackmail

With action rather than empty words, the new government could make Britain into a happier country, content to enjoy its advantages

If the Treasury published an audit of the damage done by leaving, Starmer would face a serious political problem

Here’s how Rachel Reeves can start setting the economy back on track without breaking the bank

If Labour wins, the grown-ups will be back in the room

A Labour government will have to learn to allow rising demand and investment to happen

Rachel Reeves is right - the government is gaslighting the country over the economy

Rachel Reeves will need to confront failures that others have ignored

If Reeves’ analysis is correct, her securonomics will eventually pay for itself

Securonomics is not something the existing machinery of the British state is equipped to execute

The shadow chancellor is winning rave reviews, but needs to tackle productivity