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• Labour ditches day-one protection from unfair dismissal in U-turn

  27-11-2025 23:09 via bbc.com
  The right will now be introduced after six months, in a breach of Labour's election manifesto.
  
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• OBR chair under pressure over early release of Budget report

  27-11-2025 21:16
  Senior Labour MP calls for UK’s fiscal watchdog chair Richard Hughes to ‘consider his position’
  
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• Debt and austerity remain risk for UK government after tax-raising Budget

  27-11-2025 20:08
  Verdict from think-tanks is that Rachel Reeves has put fiscal repair job ‘on hold’
  
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• The chancellor’s growth mission is missing in action | Nils Pratley

  27-11-2025 19:58
  Businesses grumble about lack of ambition and urgency as Rachel Reevescontinues to shy away from meaningful tax reformWhere was the applause for the budget from the business world? Well, there was the banking sector, but it was reportedly under strong encouragement from the Treasury to engage in a round of corporate cheerleading after being spared higher levies. Nor should one get carried away by JP Morgan’s coordinated announcement of a new £3bn office in Canary Wharf. Yes, the comm
  
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• Ben Jennings on Kemi Badenoch’s reaction to the lifting of the two-child benefit cap – cartoon

  27-11-2025 19:51
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• Who are the winners and losers from Rachel Reeves's Budget?

  27-11-2025 19:23 via bbc.com
  BBC Verify has examined what we know about how the Budget is likely to financially affect different groups.
  
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• Who are the winners and losers from Rachel Reeves' Budget?

  27-11-2025 19:23 via bbc.com
  BBC Verify has examined what we know about how the Budget is likely to financially affect different groups.
  
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• Warnings after young care leavers face increase in homelessness

  27-11-2025 19:15 via bbc.com
  It follows a trend of homelessness among the youngest care leavers which campaigners say is growing more acute.
  
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• Sharp fall in UK net migration with drop in arrivals for work and study

  27-11-2025 18:38 via bbc.com
  Provisional figures for net migration to the UK show levels dropped to 204,000 in the year to June 2025.
  
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• Labour retreats on ‘day one’ rights for workers

  27-11-2025 18:34
  Government has softened its package of measures to boost employment rights
  
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• Schools and councils warn rising cost of special needs support is unaffordable

  27-11-2025 18:31
  Ministers promise reform, but teaching unions say Send spending must not come at the expense of school budgets
  
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• The Budget’s unusual ‘winners’

  27-11-2025 18:20
  The chancellor’s £10bn of extra welfare payments will fall on the shoulders of companies, entrepreneurs and ‘working people’
  
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• Reeves to rush pensions tax raid into law to reassure markets

  27-11-2025 18:06
  Legislation on salary sacrifice schemes expected to be introduced in weeks, even though it will not take effect until 2029
  
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• Rachel Reeves to rush pensions tax raid into law to reassure markets

  27-11-2025 18:06
  Legislation on salary sacrifice schemes expected to be introduced in weeks, even though it will not take effect until 2029
  
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• By ending a cruel Tory social experiment, this budget clearly set out how Labour will fight the battle to renew Britain | Lucy Powell

  27-11-2025 18:04
  The two-child benefit cap was a totem of 14 years of failed ideology. Now it is goneLucy Powell is deputy leader of the Labour partyYesterday the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivered a Labour budget. People have been asking for Labour’s purpose and values to be more clearly expressed. Through the choices made – a shift to a fairer tax system, targeting wealth to pay for tackling child poverty, good public services and the cost of living – we have clearly set out what we stand f
  
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• Households face 'dismal' rise in spending power, says IFS

  27-11-2025 17:35 via bbc.com
  Average disposable income is set to grow by "only" 0.5% annually over the next five years, the think tank says.
  
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• Chris Mason: Starmer could have scrapped child benefit cap last year - why did he wait?

  27-11-2025 17:05 via bbc.com
  Keir Starmer has always said he wanted to end the benefit cap but the money was not available - until now.
  
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• OBR chair under pressure over early release of Budget analysis

  27-11-2025 16:51
  Senior Labour MP calls for UK’s fiscal watchdog chair Richard Hughes to ‘consider his position’
  
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• Simon Jack: Businesses left asking - what happened to growth?

  27-11-2025 16:27 via bbc.com
  Significant pro-business measures were thin on the ground in this year's Budget.
  
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• ‘It was just … meh’: the voters who feel ‘tinkering’ budget let them down

  27-11-2025 16:13
  Research group More in Common spoke to former ‘blue wall’ constituents unimpressed by ‘chaotic’ U-turns“It’s all sort of stacked against you … The people that are working hard and earning a decent wage, trying to get childcare costs under control … you sort of question why you’re doing what you’re doing,” was how Hayley, an assistant headteacher in our focus group in Aldershot, described the economy, shortly after the budget was
  
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• UK expected to scale back proposals to limit jury trials

  27-11-2025 15:40
  Justice minister David Lammy’s push for more judge-only hearings for less serious crimes angers senior legal figures
  
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• Ministers insist plans to absorb council Send debts won't hit school budgets

  27-11-2025 15:40 via bbc.com
  The government says the Office for Budget Responsibility's projections do not take into account upcoming reforms.
  
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• Welcome to the half-real, half-fantasy world that is ‘the day after the budget’ | John Crace

  27-11-2025 15:32
  This is the day when politicians and amateur commentators talk more doggybollox than on any other day of the yearIs this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Neither actually. It’s a bizarre hybrid, an altered hallucinogenic universe. Where up is down and down is up. Everything always slightly out of reach.A world otherwise known as “the day after the budget”. A day when politicians and amateur commentators are guaranteed to talk more doggybollox than on any other day of the ye
  
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• Business chides Reeves for not kick-starting growth in Budget

  27-11-2025 14:49
  Bosses accuse chancellor of not delivering on Labour’s pledge to boost output
  
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• OBR calls in cyber expert over botched release of Budget analysis

  27-11-2025 14:19 via bbc.com
  Rachel Reeves's statement was thrown into chaos after journalists were able to access the document early.
  
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• The UK Budget explained. You asked, we answered

  27-11-2025 14:11
  The FT’s Stephen Bush, Robert Shrimsley, Claer Barrett and Emma Agyemang replied to reader questions
  
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• The OBR’s carelessness has damaged us all

  27-11-2025 13:19
  The fiscal watchdog’s error is worse than other Budget leaks because it exists solely to improve the process
  
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• Nine ways the Budget could affect you if you're under 25

  27-11-2025 13:10 via bbc.com
  The chancellor's Budget contained a slew of measures which will impact young people specifically.
  
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• No independence referendum if SNP wins majority, Reeves says

  27-11-2025 13:08 via bbc.com
  The chancellor has refused to support a second vote if the SNP wins a majority of seats in May.
  
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• Explained: What does the Budget mean for Scotland?

  27-11-2025 12:54 via bbc.com
  Westminster correspondent Paris Gourtsoyannis explains how the chancellor's tax and spending plans may affect Scotland.
  
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• Net migration to UK plummets by two-thirds to 204,000

  27-11-2025 11:53
  Immigration falls sharply in the year to June alongside slight rise in people leaving
  
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• Reeves has reassured the bond vigilantes but tests to come

  27-11-2025 10:59
  Investors welcomed Budget’s fiscal rigour, giving the chancellor the benefit of the doubt on implementation, productivity and growth for now
  
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• Properties worth more than £2m in England face mansion tax

  27-11-2025 10:54 via bbc.com
  The surcharge begins at £2,500, rising to £7,500 for properties valued at more than £5m.
  
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• Have Labour broken their promises on tax?

  27-11-2025 10:40 via bbc.com
  Have Labour broken their promises on tax?
  
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• Reeves’ Budget fails her own 3 claims

  27-11-2025 10:30
  Chancellor’s actions not enough to satisfy pledges on cost of living, debt and NHS
  
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• 'Victory' as Budget promises miners' pension cash

  27-11-2025 09:42 via bbc.com
  The chancellor announced former mineworkers will get extra payments from a £2.3bn reserve fund.
  
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• Chris Mason: Reeves chooses to tax big and spend big

  27-11-2025 06:52 via bbc.com
  In a Budget dogged by months of leaks, Labour hopes its big tax and spend plans pay off.
  
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• UK Budget boosts taxes to all-time high

  27-11-2025 06:00
  Chancellor’s Budget raises taxes by £26bn, hitting ‘working people,’ the wealthy and business
  
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• How Scottish campaigners are using AI to battle rural planning applications

  27-11-2025 06:00
  Tool allows individuals to send unique, complex objections of about 4,000 words within a couple of minutes
  
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• Business chides Reeves for not kick-starting growth in the Budget

  27-11-2025 06:00
  Bosses accuse chancellor of not delivering on Labour’s pledge to boost output
  
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