Five key takeaways from the Spring Statement
Downgraded economic forecasts, increased defence spending and cuts to welfare were a few of the developments announced by chancellor Rachel Reeves
Labour
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Spring Statement 2025: UK economic growth forecasts halve to 1%
OBR cuts GDP expectations amid elevated global uncertainty
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Can Labour’s growth plans revive VCT funding?
Economic upheaval has tested VCTs’ resilience, but the Chancellor’s growth plans could make them central to revitalising the UK economy
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Tulip Siddiq resigns from Treasury following criminal case filing
Bangladeshi authorities alleged she had lived in several properties paid for by its government when her aunt was prime minister
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Mind Money: Why China will transform the global commodity market in 2025
China’s economy sways commodity markets, so a rapid slowdown of growth is likely to upend global dynamics, writes Igor Isaev
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Rachel Reeves: ‘We’re not coming back with more tax increases or borrowing’
The Autumn Budget was a ‘once in a Parliament reset’ to get public finances in order
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Knacke’s money maps: The age of deflation
The 2020s is not the 1970s, writes Ernst Knacke, head of research at Shard Capital, but more like the early 1900s
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Autumn Budget 2024: Minimum wage increases 6.7% to £12.21 an hour
Pro-worker policies announced by the Rachel Reeves today could be ‘a burden on business’, industry warns
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Autumn Budget 2024: Capital gains tax hiked to 24% in ‘blow for investors’
Higher rate of CGT has increased to 24%, while lower rate has risen to 18%
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Autumn Budget: What do investors want to see? And what would they rather avoid…
Changes to capital gains tax, tax-free caps on pensions, and inheritance tax could be ‘incredibly disruptive’
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Keir Starmer: ‘We will rip up the bureaucracy that blocks investment’
Complex regulation is delaying growth projects and turning away investment, the prime minister said
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Beneath the bonnet: The case for building suppliers, TK Maxx and General Electric
Three fund managers share stocks that are making a difference