Sir Keir Starmer is coming under mounting pressure from within his own Cabinet to scrap the two-child benefit cap, despite ...

Reeves says welfare fallout ‘damaging’ and declines to rule out tax hikes - The Chancellor warned there would be ‘costs to ...

The UK government is facing rising tensions between fiscal discipline and political pressure as markets react to a Labour ...

Rachael Maskell, Labour MP for York Central, said: “It is imperative that the Government scrap the two child limit and the benefit cap as this will lift 360,000 children out of poverty, but most of ...

But as our recent Independent Ask Me Anything Q&A revealed, it’s the government now feeling the heat – politically bruised, ...

Economists have called on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to exercise fiscal discipline after a “rollercoaster” week in the bond ...

The reasons for Reeves’s distress remain shrouded in mystery: she looked strained but smiled gamely and admitted that she ...

Recent U-turns have only exacerbated the problem for Labour, with the climbdown on the Winter Fuel Allowance costing £1.5 ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to target wealthier taxpayers if forced to raise funds to cover the £5 billion shortfall ...

After a year in office, Britain's finance minister Rachel Reeves faces a reckoning over unmet promises of economic stability, ...

MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -After a year in office, Britain's finance minister Rachel Reeves faces a reckoning over unmet promises of economic stability, with a stop-start economy and restive bond ...

Rosa Prince is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering UK politics and policy. She was formerly an editor and writer at ...