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‘Budget emperor has no clothes’ says shadow minister as MPs continue debate

The final day of debate on Labour’s first Budget in 14 years is taking place in the Commons.

The Independent UK

Rachel Reeves gives top official vote of confidence in row over Budget black hole cover-up

Exclusive: The chancellor gave officials a vote of confidence ahead of she and her Treasury permanent secretary James Bowler facing questions from MPs today

The Independent UK

UK politics live: Davey accuses Badenoch of ‘cheerleading’ for Trump after Starmer snubs her call for apology

Lib Dems leader Ed Davey has Kemi Badenoch ‘s support for Trump shows she doesn’t reflect British values

The Independent UK

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Bombshell claim Rishi Sunak's government 'didn't follow law' on revealing scale of UK public finances crisis

The allegation came from the independent Office for Budget Responsibility

Evening Standard

Jeremy Hunt’s Treasury may have broken the law by hiding Budget black hole, says OBR

£9.5bn spending gap wasn’t disclosed, ‘which under the law ... they should have done’, says fiscal watchdog

The Independent UK

Treasury may have broken law by failing to reveal £9.5bn spend in Tory budget, MPs told

Head of OBR says spending commitment would have ‘materially changed’ its forecast on Jeremy Hunt’s pre-election budget

The Guardian - UK

Spending on projects early could lead to higher costs in the end – OBR chief

Richard Hughes was speaking to a cross-party committee of MPs on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

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OBR moving to ‘trust but verify’ relationship with Treasury after ‘black hole’ row – as it happened

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

The Guardian - UK

Worst of Britain’s Brexit pain is still to come, admits Treasury minister

Exclusive: In a damning assessment of Britain’s departure from the European Union, Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq said 60 per cent of the economic impact of Brexit is yet to materialise

The Independent UK

Investment drives growth. That’s why gloomy forecasters are so wrong about the budget

The Office for Budget Responsibility’s extreme conservatism means it has woefully underestimated the impact of Labour’s public spending plans

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view: a bold budget that’s the right response to years of neglect

Rachel Reeves’s spending plans signal a welcome break with the past and underline the scale of the challenges facing Britain

The Guardian - UK

Is austerity over? Will farmers lose out? Six big questions about Rachel Reeves’s budget

The Labour chancellor unveiled lots of plans for long-term investment. But there is plenty of lively debate about the immediate impact

The Guardian - UK

OBR error cut £18bn of headroom from Rachel Reeves’ Budget

The error may have contributed to the market jitters that were seen in the wake of the Budget

The Independent UK

Why it’s unfair to compare the current market movement to catastrophic Truss mini-Budget

ANALYSIS : Ignore the comparisons, writes Howard Mustoe – any suggestions that market concerns over Rachel Reeves’s Budget bear any similarity to the chaos that followed Liz Truss’s economic disaster are wide of the mark

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The Guardian - UK

After Reeves’s historic budget, Labour has time to pursue its revolution. What it needs now is public trust

The government is operating in an unforgiving time and lacks capital with voters. It will be crucial to address that, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Reeves told she will have to raise further £9bn to avoid UK public service cuts

Warning comes after Rachel Reeves’s record tax-raising budget sent tremors through financial markets

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves’s most irritating manifesto fudge: private equity’s tax loophole

Labour said it would bring taxation of performance-related pay in the industry in line with others – but the chancellor had a change of heart

Evening Standard

Reeves admits NI hike could hit pay rises while markets react to borrowing spree

Chancellor Rachel Reeves insisted she had no alternative but to raise taxes in her first Budget.

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The Conversation

Why the chancellor’s plan to unlock billions of pounds of government investment is such a gamble

Perhaps the most important long-term change announced in the first Labour budget are the new rules the government has set itself to fund the expansion of public services and increase public investment. These fiscal rules, which set out how much the government can borrow and spend, are seen as critical…

The Guardian - UK

Reeves needs faster UK growth than the OBR predicts for her budget to work

Unless the chancellor’s capital spending increases stimulate private investment, expect more tax rises ahead

The Guardian - UK

Reeves’s £40bn tax rises will boost growth ‘sustainably’, says IMF

Rare intervention comes as Resolution Foundation says UK will remain ‘stagnation nation’ despite push to invest

The National (Scotland)

Lower pay rises likely as result of Budget tax increases, Rachel Reeves admits

Tax rises in the Budget are likely to hit workers in the pocket with lower pay rises, Rachel Reeves has admitted.

The Independent UK

Lower pay rises likely due to Budget tax increases, Rachel Reeves admits

The Chancellor acknowledged her decision to raise national insurance contributions for employers could affect wage growth for workers.

Evening Standard

Lower pay rises likely due to Budget tax rises, Rachel Reeves admits

The Chancellor acknowledged her decision to raise national insurance contributions for employers could impact wage growth for workers.

The Independent UK

UK politics live: Budget means weekly pay to rise just £13 in 20 years as IFS calls Reeves’s plans ‘unrealistic’

The Resolution Foundation has warned that the pay outlook is “dire” and many UK workers will not feel any better off by the end of this Parliament

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