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  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    UK executives dump shares on fears of Labour capital gains tax raid

    Public filings show disposals have doubled in wake of election and ahead of crunch Budget

    3 hours ago
    Rachel Reeves, City skyline and bar charts
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Reeves weighs capital gains tax hike to help plug UK’s Budget gap

    Treasury models impact of changes, but rules out ‘exit tax’ on those who leave Britain to avoid being hit

    Rachel Reeves
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    UK mortgage rates
    Cheapest UK mortgage deals hit by rise in government borrowing costs

    Barclays pulls best-priced home loan rate with other lenders set to follow suit

    Skyline of Denmark Hill and City of London behind
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    UK tax
    Peel Hunt takes Aim at the IFS

    Battle lines are drawn over inheritance tax on London’s junior stock market

  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Reeves must convince on growth to keep bond investors on side

    IFS says any increased spending in the Budget must deliver economic expansion

    Rachel Reeves, UK chancellor of the exchequer
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Reeves rules out ‘exit tax’ for wealthy people leaving UK

    Chancellor urged to bring in expatriation charge in order to avoid increasing UK capital gains levy in Budget

    Rachel Reeves
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Starmer refuses to rule out raising employer national insurance rate

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves could raise billions of pounds by introducing levy on employer pension contributions

    Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    ExplainerUK Autumn Budget 2024
    Why Reeves is ‘walking a tightrope’ ahead of the Budget

    UK chancellor will submit proposals to independent watchdog on Wednesday

    Montage shows Rachel Reeves against a backdrop of pound notes in Labour red
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    UK economy
    Pension funds call for UK fiscal rule change to spur investment

    Current definition means the government is ‘actively discouraged’ from spending on infrastructure

    People walking on a beach in front of some wind turbines
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Demographics and population
    Immigration drives fastest UK population growth for half a century

    Official data highlights country’s demographic challenges

    Shoppers on Oxford Street, London
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Gilts
    UK borrowing costs climb as Reeves walks ‘tightrope’ over spending plans

    Gap between yields on gilts and German bonds has reached widest in more than a year ahead of Budget

    Montage of chart, Bank of England building and Rachel Reeves
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Starmer’s missions need the government machine to run better

    Previous governments have attempted the Whitehall silo-busting needed by Labour to achieve its five big aims

    Prime minister Keir Starmer making a statement in the House of Commons
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Reeves to spare PE bosses top UK tax rate in compromise on ‘loophole’

    Chancellor wants to raise revenue from pay through carried interest without driving investors away

    Rachel Reeves
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Britain’s debt rule is not fit for purpose

    The chancellor should begin moving the country to a more dynamic fiscal framework

    Rachel Reeves
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    UK government spending
    Rachel Reeves vows to ‘invest, invest, invest’

    FT exclusive: Chancellor seeks to reassure investors that ‘guardrails’ will be placed around extra borrowing for investment

    Rachel Reeves meets workers during a visit to the Encirc Glass factory in Chester
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Wealth managers warn Reeves of pensions withdrawals rush ahead of UK Budget

    Increasing number of people are pulling money from retirement pots early because of tax uncertainty

    The City of London skyline
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Q&AFT subscriber event
    Labour’s Budget: how will the UK secure economic growth?

    Join a webinar for FT subscribers on 1 November 13:00 — 14:00 GMT

  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Pension tax breaks: what’s in the Budget line of fire?

    Analysts lay out the range of options at the chancellor’s disposal as Starmer warns of ‘decisions’ on the horizon

    Montage shows a crowd of workers, the HMRC logo, pound notes and a funeral casket
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    UK government spending
    Reeves raises hopes of investment surge as she attacks Tory plans

    UK chancellor vows to avoid Jeremy Hunt’s ‘mistakes’ and stokes optimism that spending could surpass manifesto

    Britain’s chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    UK politics
    UK gives Chagos Islands to Mauritius to secure military base

    Deal comes after 50 years of wrangling over the remote but strategically important archipelago

    Demonstrators from the Chagos Islands hold up flags in Port Louis, Mauritius, in 2019
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    The Big Read
    Can Labour find a way out of its own Budget traps?

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves says the government has a growth plan, but self-imposed red lines leave little room for manoeuvre

    Montage of four images of Rachel Reeves face with different expressions against a red background
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Anjana Ahuja
    ‘Evidence banks’ can drive better decisions in public life

    From climate change to crime, repositories of good quality information are essential

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    UK tax
    Business owners look at leaving UK over prospect of capital gains tax rise

    Wealth advisers report a jump in inquiries ahead of Budget on October 30

    Montage shows couple with bags against the HMRC logo
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Reeves unlikely to cut pension tax relief for higher earners, says report

    LCP consultancy argues chancellor does not want to alienate better paid public sector staff

    Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, gives her speech during the Labour party conference
  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    Statutory maternity pay is ‘excessive’, says Badenoch

    Row breaks out over leadership contender’s comments as Tory annual conference gets under way in Birmingham

    Kemi Badenoch
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