Business leaders turn on Rachel Reeves

Rachel Reeves says Budget 'wiped slate clean' and vows no more borrowing or tax hikes
Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she won't have to do 'a Budget like this ever again' as addressed an audience of business leaders following a backlash over tax hikes
Business leaders turn on Rachel Reeves after Budget tax raid
Business leaders have turned on Rachel Reeves as a string of executives warned Britain was becoming a less attractive place to invest under Labour. The head of one of the UK’s biggest manufacturers said on Monday that the country risked becoming uninvestable,
Rachel Reeves vows NO more tax rises after Labour’s bruising £40bn budget raid
RACHEL Reeves boldly  insisted last night  there will be no further  tax rises during her time as Chancellor. Her dramatic claim to a frosty reception from business leaders came as McVitie’s
UK politics live: Reeves tax rises ‘caught business off-guard’, CBI chief says in stark review of Budget
Independent business economist Andrew Sentance, who is a former CBI Director of Economic Affairs, says CBI boss Rain Newton Smith needs to be stronger in her response to the Budget, which has been unpopular among businesses.
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Rachel Reeves is toast if she backs down on the Budget
If Reeves buckles, or the Prime Minister pulls the rug from under her, or their MPs press the two of them to perform an about-face on this major policy, in the new Government’s very first Budget, then it is open season.
Rachel Reeves’ Budget is squeezing profits and killing off growth, business chiefs will warn today
RACHEL Reeves’ Budget is squeezing profits and killing off growth, business chiefs will warn today. At the annual Confederation of Business Industry conference, the Chancellor will be told she
Reeves tells firms no more tax rises as she defends Budget
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has told businesses she is "not coming back with more borrowing or more taxes" as she defended the tax rises on businesses announced in the Budget. Reeves told the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) conference that despite "a lot of feedback" on her tax and spending plans, she had not heard many alternatives.
Car tax changes: How Rachel Reeves’s raid on motorists affects you
New rules and rates for vehicle duty are coming in – including for EVs
Cabinet minister contradicts Reeves on future tax raid
Businesses may face further tax rises this parliament, a senior cabinet minister has said, in an apparent contradiction of claims by Rachel Reeves that taxes would not go up again.
Chancellor Reeves Pledges End to Major Tax Hikes
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has ruled out further tax increases or borrowing during the current government's term. Speaking at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) conference, Reeves emphasized that her recent budget which included raising employers' national insurance contributions and the minimum wage,
Expert warns Rachel Reeves’ promise not to raise taxes depends on pure 'luck'
Ben Zaranko, the associate director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, as reacted with scepticism to the Chancellor's vow ...
Defiant Reeves to tell firms ‘we had no choice’ amid fierce Budget backlash
CBI boss will say measures announced by government have made it harder for firms to ‘take a chance’ on hiring new people ...
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Rachel Reeves draws line under tax rises, but will Labour’s other pledges survive?
Good morning. Rachel Reeves’ speech to an audience of business leaders was partly a defiant defence of her tax-raising Budget, partly a promise that she wouldn’t do anything like it again. Some ...
Rachel Reeves just shot Angela Rayner in the foot - and sank Labour’s only growth plan
Chancellor Rachel Reeves's disastrous Budget is causing more havoc by the day. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is its ...
Reeves Budget is a 'tax on the working person' and will make flight more expensive, warns incoming EasyJet boss
Kenton Jarvis (pictured), who takes over from John Lundrgen in January, warned that EasyJet could cut flights from the UK and ...
‘Catastrophic’: Airports demand meeting with Rachel Reeves over business rates
A draft letter from Airports UK, which represents over 50 airports in the UK, claims the industry will be forced to pay out ...