SHOCKING: 2 - What They Never Told You

Rachel Reeves to turn on spending taps with Budget boost for infrastructure and clean energy

The chancellor is planning to change the government’s fiscal rules to free up billions of pounds of borrowing, which she will promise to spend laying ‘the foundations of future growth’

The Independent UK · Oct 23, 2024

Reeves ‘WhatsApps’ Hunt and is in contact ‘regularly’ with Blair and Brown

The Chancellor added that she would love to be able to call up the late Alistair Darling – the last Labour chancellor to deliver a Budget.

Evening Standard · Oct 23, 2024

Labour should ditch doom and gloom message for one of economic renewal

Before first conference speech by a Labour chancellor for 15 years, downbeat tune may have been overcooked

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2024

If Rachel Reeves hikes capital gains tax, she’ll be more in line with Nigel Lawson than Gordon Brown

With Labour heavily predicted to win the upcoming UK election, there has been much talk about future tax plans.

The Conversation · Jun 28, 2024

Toxic budgets: the UK chancellors who left a poisonous legacy

Before an election, chancellors often try to woo voters with tax cuts that leave the incoming government in a hole. Here are six ‘poison pill’ speeches

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2024

‘The key thing is to have a plan’: the former City watchdog now helping to guide Keir Starmer

Charles Randell, ex-chair of the Financial Conduct Authority, cut his teeth helping the Treasury fight the financial crisis and is now a Labour election policy adviser

The Guardian - UK · Jan 23, 2024

Watch out, Rachel Reeves: the old guard is ganging up on your borrowing ambitions

The shadow chancellor had plans to increase borrowing to invest in infrastructure and more, but the weight of expert disapproval is wearing her down

The Guardian - UK · Jan 13, 2024

Senior figures from across UK politics gather to remember Alistair Darling

Edinburgh memorial service pays tribute to former chancellor for his ‘decency, honesty and shrewd judgement’

The Guardian - UK · Dec 19, 2023

Tony Blair and JK Rowling among mourners at Alistair Darling's memorial service

Former chancellor hailed as 'man of great integrity' as politicians from across the political spectrum gathered to pay their respects

Evening Standard · Dec 19, 2023

JK Rowling, Ian Rankin, and Labour grandees mourn at Alistair Darling's memorial

POLITICIANS from across the spectrum came together to remember the life of former chancellor Alistair Darling, at a service which contained both…

The National (Scotland) · Dec 19, 2023