Chancellor cuts winter fuel payments for better-off pensioners as she paves the way for Budget tax rises
Decision to accept recommendations of pay review bodies in full was ‘a choice’, experts say
Treasury acknowledges announcements will only go part of the way towards clamping down on 2024-25 overspend
Cuts to infrastructure projects cast doubt over Labour’s growth strategy
Growth measures should not be sacrificed to plug ‘black hole’ in public finances
Electrification of Rosebank field will be more ‘challenging’ under new government’s fiscal regime, says oil and gas chief
Chancellor’s problems exacerbated by recommendations that public sector workers should get pay rises that are well above inflation
Roberto Cingolani says ‘fourth partner could be very convenient’ for Global Combat Air Programme
Chancellor will outline results of an audit of finances likely to pave way for tax rises this year
Labour’s election pledges mean wealthy are likely to be hit
Axing northern leg between Birmingham and Manchester will mean fewer seats on existing rail services, NAO says
National Audit Office notes potential ‘growing mismatch’ between demand for services and future funding
Blaming Tory mismanagement is much more convincing on public services than it is on immigration
Ex-chancellor Hunt claims Labour government is ‘softening us up for colossal U-turn’ on higher taxes
Rachel Reeves to give statement on Labour’s ‘spending inheritance’ as new government grapples with early crises
UK chancellor says ‘there is a cost to not settling’ even as Treasury grapples with straitened finances
Seven charts that show the scale of problems in UK public services after decades of under-investment
Only 2% of supporters expect party to cut public investment if it takes power, says YouGov poll
Shadow chief secretary to the Treasury indicates £28bn a year not enough to achieve Britain’s decarbonisation goal
Think-tank delivers scathing verdict on manifesto promises of Labour and Conservatives
Big cash injection needed to prevent nurses and teachers falling further behind private sector, think-tank warns
Touring 14 years of plans to level-up, by slow train and rail replacement bus
Parties ‘need to be honest’ about scale of investment needed to tackle health service crisis in England, warn analysts
Neither Tories nor Labour are being upfront about what is needed to fix them
UK defence official cites possibility that tracking devices or GPS transmitters could be embedded into metal crests