Budget
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Barney Macintyre
Uncertainty over budget produces an early hangover
Sun 14 Dec 2025
Jasper Reid
After the budget, pubs face fast food threat
Sat 13 Dec 2025
William Keegan
Betting on fiscal drag won’t help the chancellor balance the economy
Sat 6 Dec 2025
Iona Bain
Family trusts to protect your legacy may not be safe
Sat 6 Dec 2025
Simon Finkelstein
Don’t blame the OBR for the failures of politicians
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Xavier Greenwood
The chair of the UK’s fiscal watchdog has resigned. Rachel Reeves could be next
Tue 2 Dec 2025
Rachel Sylvester
‘The cabinet is a sham’: the budget fallout shows Starmer’s authority is fading
Mon 1 Dec 2025
Matthew Bishop
The CBI comes in from the cold
Sun 30 Nov 2025
Ben Zaranko
The chancellor could learn a few things from cricket: risk taking can pay dividends
Sun 30 Nov 2025
Andrew Rawnsley
What is the point of this Labour government? Reeves offered no compelling answer
Sun 30 Nov 2025
Matthew Bishop
The budget is a political mess but with an economic silver lining
Sun 30 Nov 2025
The Observer leader
The Observer view on the budget: Trust and the Treasury
Sun 30 Nov 2025
Will Hutton
UK’s tech sector could be the best in Europe, but this timid budget won’t help
Sun 30 Nov 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Economic with the truth: the mis-selling of the budget
Sun 30 Nov 2025
Sam Freedman
Labour’s holiday homework: solve the problem of special needs education
Sat 29 Nov 2025
Emma Haslett
High-end property market enjoys post-budget boost
Fri 28 Nov 2025
Tim Leunig
Reeves’s budget is from deep within Labour’s DNA
Fri 28 Nov 2025
Rachel Reeves timid budget
31 mins • S1, E291
The Observer leader
Better than forecast
Thu 27 Nov 2025
Rachel Reeves wants to bring the cost of living down
7 mins • S1, E1243
Will Hutton
A tame budget with a sting in its tail
Wed 26 Nov 2025
Andrew Rawnsley
Labour MPs are finally cheering – but this budget’s true test is yet to come
Wed 26 Nov 2025
Philip Collins
The chancellor’s speech, decoded
Wed 26 Nov 2025
Giles Whittell
Rachel Reeves is in a double bind
Wed 26 Nov 2025
Will Hutton
Help with cost of living will make tax smorgasboard easier to swallow
Sun 23 Nov 2025
Lucien Young
Dear Keir: You have to be cruel to be kind – just ask the Sun
Sun 23 Nov 2025
Barney Macintyre
Chancellor told to free unspent levy funds for apprenticeships
Sun 23 Nov 2025
Ben Zaranko
Minor forecasts shouldn’t make the weather for Reeves
Sat 22 Nov 2025
Will Hutton
It’s time for the Treasury to take back control
Sun 16 Nov 2025
Catherine Neilan
Labour is ‘totally flapping’, say ministers after budget swerve
Fri 14 Nov 2025
Sir Richard Lambert
Raising costs for overseas students won’t help cash-strapped universities
Thu 13 Nov 2025
William Keegan
Reeves can no longer ignore ‘mammoth in the broom cupboard’
Sun 9 Nov 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Reeves will raise tax to ‘transfer wealth between generations’
Sun 9 Nov 2025
Will Hutton
To combat rising prices, the government’s only option is to take on the cost itself
Sun 9 Nov 2025
The Observer leader
The budget should put the public first
Sat 8 Nov 2025
Andrew Rawnsley
The tide may soon turn for Rachel Reeves
Tue 4 Nov 2025
Andrew Rawnsley
The chancellor is stuck between a rock and a hard place
Sun 2 Nov 2025
Will Hutton
Debt strategy will be the core of Reeves’s ‘aggressive’ budget
Sun 2 Nov 2025
Tim Leunig
Economists don’t have crystal balls. More like snow globes – and they’re all shook up
Fri 31 Oct 2025
Will Hutton
Why a fall in productivity could be the straw that breaks the economy’s back
Thu 30 Oct 2025
William Keegan
The chancellor has finally got the Brexit message, but only part of it
Sun 26 Oct 2025
Will Hutton
Reeves sets her sight on a European Silicon Valley
Sun 26 Oct 2025
Will Hutton
A Labour strategy that could make the revenue numbers add up
Sun 19 Oct 2025
Tim Leunig
Raising income tax for high earners is not the fix we need
Sat 18 Oct 2025
Ben Zaranko
In Britain’s ‘hedgehog economy’, growth is wild, spiky – and fragile
Wed 8 Oct 2025
Ben Zaranko
Remember, remember Liz Truss this November
Wed 24 Sept 2025
