‘Iron chancellor’ Rachel Reeves faces an early challenge to her authority over winter fuel payments | Andrew Rawnsley
I hope he enjoyed it while it lasted. From being promisingly positive when he moved into Number 10, Sir Keir Starmer’s personal ratings have soured...
More than a million British workers not having a single day of paid time off, says TUC
Workers across Britain have lost out on holiday pay worth £2bn, with more than a million people going without a single day of paid...
There’s no need to cut poorer pensioners’ income. Smarter winter fuel solutions are at hand | Steve Webb
The new government’s honeymoon period with the voters ended at 3.33pm on Monday 29 July. This was when the chancellor stood up to announce...
Reeves can loosen Britain’s purse strings: she just needs to think outside the Treasury box | Philip Inman
Pressure is building on Rachel Reeves to prevent some of the UK’s poorest pensioners being hit by restrictions on the winter fuel allowance. A...
Labour ministers reveal grave concerns about winter fuel payment cut
Cabinet ministers have grave concerns about Rachel Reeves’s plan to axe the winter fuel allowance for all but the poorest pensioners, the Guardian can...
Rachel Reeves is right to scrap Jeremy Hunt’s gimmicky British Isa | Nils Pratley
Were you preparing to do your patriotic duty by investing in a “British Isa”, that late-in-the-day invention of Jeremy Hunt when the last government...