Business leaders in Greater Manchester have warned Chancellor Rachel Reeves that plans to increase National Insurance payments for employers will hit job creation in the area.

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Rachel Reeves says she is "absolutely committed" to spending 2.5% of GDP on defence and will "set out a pathway" to do so "in the proper way". The chancellor adds, "a strong economy depends on strong ...

I have always been clear that creating new job opportunities and improving workers' rights would be among my top priorities for St Helens North.

BETRAYAL. It’s not a word I bandy about loosely. Its overuse devalues the potency of its meaning, the force of accusation involved.

The extent of this dependence is such that if London’s economic output was excluded from national figures, living standards in the UK would fall by 14%, meaning that Britons would be worse off than ...

Anas Sarwar promised in the 2024 Westminster election that Labour would save the jobs at Grangemouth. …a private company ...

Rachel Reeves isn’t very good with other people’s money. She’s got a history of running up debts, splashing cash and trying to borrow her way out of fiscal futility. So far so embarrassing for a ...

A businessman has revealed how he's been "clobbered" by Chancellor Rachel Reeves' economic policies. He also fears that £50,000 will added to his running costs due to measure announced in the ...

How much easier would Keir Starmer’s life be if his chancellor, Rachel Reeves, decided that the various ... quite recent example of this was poor old Kwasi Kwarteng. A victim, to some extent ...

Someone is out to get Rachel Reeves. “I don’t know what they are saying and of course none of them have gone on the record,” she said on Friday, after reports that her expenses claims were ...

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