Spring statement: Reeves blames ‘global uncertainty’ for deeper spending cuts

Chancellor says tougher measures required to plug fiscal hole after Treasury watchdog halves 2025 growth forecast

Spring statement 2025: key points at a glance

Rachel Reeves has delivered her economic update – here are the main points, with political analysis

Five economic factors that will govern Rachel Reeves’s spring statement

The chancellor will deliver her spring statement on Wednesday, warning of tough spending cuts amid rising government borrowing costs

Further benefits cuts planned as Rachel Reeves forced to find extra £1.6bn

Chancellor risks wrath of Labour backbenchers with spring statement set to confirm deeper cuts

What to expect from Rachel Reeves’s (brief) spring statement

Talk of tough choices ahead, an increase in debt financing, and more initiatives to promote growth

Rachel Reeves: For the umpteenth time, it’s not an emergency budget!

WhatsApp exclusive: PM and cabinet in upbeat mood ahead of tomorrow’s eagerly anticipated emergency budget … erm, spring statement

Fiscal hawk or playing a bad hand: what kind of chancellor is Rachel Reeves?

Reeves-watchers are still divided over whether her tough approach is pragmatic or the result of deeply seated beliefs

Rachel Reeves is all about growth. So why won’t she admit that Brexit is its worst enemy?

Our exit from the EU won’t be a focus of the spring statement, but it should be. Most now accept the need for closer ties, writes Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Britons cutting back on spending as confidence in economy falls, survey shows

Most feel financially secure but think UK’s economy is worsening, as chancellor plans welfare cuts in spring statement

Labour’s economic strategy is outdated. I can fix that

The last thing we need from Wednesday’s spring statement are incremental changes to tax and spending. Let’s have a clear plan, says Jagjit Chadha of Cambridge University

Visual analysis: How the markets boxed in Rachel Reeves

The chancellor lacks room to manoeuvre before her spring statement thanks to the cost of debt interest payments

Ministers may siphon off stalled £950m fund for motorway chargers

Talks to take place with operators about the scheme, announced in 2020, which has failed to make any grants

Starmer is warned against ‘appeasing’ Trump with tax cut for US tech firms

Labour MP and Lib Dem leader express concern social media companies could be let off hook just as benefits are cut

Reeves’s dilemma: break your tax pledges or cast Labour adrift from its principles

After the welfare cuts backlash the chancellor is being warned about how she wields the scalpel in her spring statement

After America: can Europe learn to go it alone without the US?

In Germany, tariff-hit car factories are being repurposed for defence. In Britain, American academics are queueing up for jobs. The west will be different as a result of Trump – but will it be worse?