Official figures Friday showed that the British economy, the world’s sixth-largest, enjoyed a growth spurt in February, the month before U.S. President Donald Trump started to ...

About 45 years have passed since a U.S. state last eliminated its income tax on wages and salaries. But with recent actions ...

These are among the new titles released by Bay Area and Northern California writers, listed in alphabetical order by author names: "Foghorn: The Nearly True Story of a Small Publishing Empire" by ...

Voters won’t want to thank Rachel Reeves if the Office for Budgetary Responsibility (OBR) turns out to be right in its forecast for zero real growth in earnings in 2026 and 2027. But static earnings ...

Although the spring statement didn’t deliver cuts, it didn’t deliver a proper investment plan in our justice system either. A fair and effective justice system requires greater funding and ...

Rachel Reeves has squeezed the welfare budget further and boosted defence spending in a Spring Statement aimed at kick-starting the faltering economy. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR ...

Before the last budget, Reeves repeatedly claimed she had found a £22billion black hole in the nation’s finances in an attempt to justify £40billion worth of tax rises. In today’s Spring Statement, ...

In the Spring Statement, Rachel Reeves confirmed plans for a £625million package aimed at ramping up the number of people across Britain who can build homes, and getting younger people into work.

The clash came as Reeves delivered her Spring Statement, which revealed the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) had halved UK growth forecasts for 2025 from two per cent to one per cent. Nigel's ...

She says today's announcements mean the government's budget will move from a deficit of £36.1bn in 2025/26 and £13.4bn in 2026/27, to a surplus of £6bn in 2027/28, £7.1bn in 2028/29 and £9 ...

Rachel Reeves tried to make the best of a bad hand on Wednesday and will live to fight on for now Sooner or later a chancellor is going to have to deliver a Budget that speaks honestly and ...