Baroness Morgan said 'those with the broadest shoulders should carry more of the burden' amid alarm that the Chancellor will ...

UK living standards are no higher than when Labour swept to power a year ago, highlighting the problems piling up for Prime ...

A combination of the sluggish economy, U-turns on welfare and winter fuel payments, and a never-ending list of problems that ...

The Independent's Political Editor David Maddox says that despite the clash with Unite, the deputy prime minister’s influence ...

As Britain’s Labour government scrambles to plug a major fiscal gap, calls are growing for a wealth tax on the country’s richest. But according to tax experts and economists, the odds of implementing ...

Experts have warned the government could be facing a £30bn blackhole in the public finances, with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealing the UK economy contracted by 0.1% in May ...

An author of a report on taxing Britain’s richest people says it can’t be done fast enough to help Chancellor of the ...

Keir Starmer has come under pressure over claims more state pensioners will be forced to pay income tax. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch attacked the Prime Minister over frozen tax bands which are ...

Angela Rayner has had her membership of a major trade union suspended in a row over the Birmingham bin strikes. Unite also ...

Fears of another Rachel Reeves’ tax raid are growing after fresh figures revealed the economy shrank in May, but a member of ...

The UK economy shrank for a second month-in-a-row in May, as the country struggled to bounce back from the blow dealt by US ...

The unexpected shrinking of Britain's economy could be "catastrophic" for under pressure chancellor Rachel Reeves, a ...