Good afternoon and welcome to our live blog. Chancellor Rachel Reeves will deliver her Spring Statement to Parliament this Wednesday, 26 March. Reeves has said it will not be a “tax and spend ...

Chancellor forced to announce further £500 million cuts to benefits and welfare after OBR rejected Treasury estimates of savings and halved growth forecast ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is preparing to present her first highly anticipated spring statement to parliament.After a controversial first Autumn budget was revealed in October 2024, Ms Reeves returns ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has delivered her Spring Statement, confirming the 2025 growth estimate for the UK has been halved to 1 per cent by the government's official forecaster ...

Delivering her spring statement on Wednesday, Ms Reeves unveiled a £14bn package to repair the UK economy that included cuts to welfare, prompting criticism from Labour MPs who urged her to reverse ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to make further cuts to welfare benefits and government departments in her Spring Statement on Wednesday. The government announced big welfare spending reductions last ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to update MPs on the state of the UK economy at the Spring Statement on Wednesday ...

Chancellor reiterates 'non-negotiable' fiscal rules as growth forecast is halved and more than 3 million families set to hit by welfare cuts.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is poised to slash benefits further after the UK ’s budget watchdog warned last week’s reforms would save over £1bn less than forecast. At such a critical moment in US history ...

The spring statement will see Chancellor Rachel Reeves set out the UK's economic position and could touch on key policy affecting households too.

Rachel Reeves has used her Spring Statement to unveil swathes of public spending cuts - including benefits being slashed even further for some of Britain's most vulnerable. The Chancellor ...

Ms Reeves is facing a 50-50 risk that she will need to mount a new raid to stay within her own rules, the fiscal watchdog said in the wake of her Spring Statement. A squeeze on benefits and ...