What the Heck Is Rachel Reeves up To?

What the heck is Rachel Reeves up to?

Welcome to my first Evening Blend. Unless there are earth-shattering events each Friday, my intention is to try to cut through the events of the week and say what really mattered over the past five days. This week, it was the Treasury’s relentless efforts to ‘roll the pitch’ for the Budget. But the frenetic pace

Rachel Reeves and the art of pitch rolling the Budget

Rachel Reeves and the art of pitch rolling the Budget sam.macrory Fri, 07/11/2025 - 08:42 Podcast Institute for Government Public finances Budget Tax Public spending Labour Conservative Chancellor of the exchequer Starmer government HM Treasury Taxes set to rise? Spending set to be cut? Promises to be kept – or maybe broken? Whatever chancellors choose to reveal on budget day, it’s normally a good idea to let people know what they can expect…So…

Reeves has learned nothing from her last Budget

Amidst market uncertainty caused by her delayed and vague budget “context” speech, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is now expected to introduce a raft of significant tax increases on income, property, and businesses to address a national debt she helped exacerbate, says Jamila Robertson This week, Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered a speech to set the context for her upcoming budget, which sent the FTSE tumbling by 57 points and the pound falling to a …