Chancellor Rachel Reeves is signalling a huge change of heart - and it's not gone down well with some of her more deluded colleagues.
Rachel Reeves has been accused of a “Davos deal for millionaires” after announcing she was watering down moves to make wealthy foreigners pay more tax. The chancellor said she had been “listening to the concerns” of “non-doms” living in the UK.
A civil war has erupted in the Labour Party after it was reported that Rachel Reeves plans to approve a third runway at Heathrow Airport and an expansion of operations at Gatwick. In a speech next week, the Chancellor is also expected to support more flights at Luton.
Plans to abolish non-dom status will be amended to allow a more generous phase out of tax benefits, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced. Reeves told an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos that changes would be made to upcoming legislation to increase the generosity of a facility to help non-doms repatriate their funds to the UK.
UK chancellor Rachel Reeves has shrugged off calls for her resignation, insisting to MPs that her economic plans can deliver an “immense” prize and defending her visit to China last week.
Pensions minister Torsten Bell (pictured), who has just arrived at the Treasury, has previously questioned the sustainability of the triple lock.
Tories claim improvements to the school which educated two of Keir Starmer’s cabinet ministers would not have been allowed by Labour’s education reforms
Rachel Reeves has suggested she will alter some of the more controversial non-dom reforms announced in the Autumn Budget.
As ye sow, so shall ye reap. One reasonably reliable rule of economics is that markets will eventually always find you out. It’s taken just six short months for this to happen to Labour, with its fairytale promise to end austerity in public services without having to raise taxes on working people.
Experts said the tax changes contributed to a growing exodus of millionaires from the UK - and the chancellor should find ways to attract them back to help the economy.
Rachel Reeves will launch a war on waste to stabilise public finances amid growing disquiet from her MPs over her handling of the economy...
The Chancellor has hit back in the escalating row with Sir Sadiq Khan and other senior Labour figures over Heathrow Airport expansion. Rachel Reeves on Wednesday said if Britain wants a strong economy the answer “can't always be 'no'” to projects that will create growth.