Rachel Reeves

Trump’s move on Canada is as mad as it’s insulting

8 February 2025 9:00 am

When I visited Toronto with a UK delegation last winter, conversation focused on the issues of immigration, housing and inflation…

I feel sorry for ‘Rachel from accounts’

8 February 2025 9:00 am

There’s no statute of limitations on reporting a government minister’s embarrassing oops-a-daisy. It’s no good them doing a duck-dive, hoping…

I’m being driven mad by Microsoft Outlook

1 February 2025 9:00 am

Call me a cynic, but I suspect this week’s headlines about a revival of Heathrow’s third runway plan amount to…

Portrait of the week: DeepSeek, Duke of Sussex’s damages and an iceberg the size of Cornwall

1 February 2025 9:00 am

Home The government would invest 2.6 per cent of GDP a year to create growth, Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of…

My money-saving tips for Rachel Reeves

1 February 2025 9:00 am

It is always upsetting to watch a woman enmired in distress and so I thought I might ride on my…

Portrait of the week: Trump’s inauguration, Israel-Hamas ceasefire and cardboard humans comfort lonely fish

25 January 2025 9:00 am

Home Axel Rudakubana, 18, pleaded guilty to the murder of three girls in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed…

Portrait of the week: Tulip Siddiq quits, Sturgeon splits from husband and Trump spared jail

18 January 2025 9:00 am

Home Tulip Siddiq resigned as economic secretary to the Treasury, although she was found not to have broken the ministerial…

Why was everyone fooled by Rachel Reeves?

18 January 2025 9:00 am

It is some time since I could claim any close acquaintance with the daily skirmishes of workaday Westminster. From risers…

The growing wealth gap between Britain and the US

4 January 2025 9:00 am

New year predictions are always rash, but it feels as though one aspect of the story of 2025 can already…

Rachel Reeves’s new year’s resolution

4 January 2025 9:00 am

On Christmas Day, 12 million people watched the will-they-won’t-they couple Smithy and Nessa finally marry after 17 years in the…

My business predictions for 2025

4 January 2025 9:00 am

Headed for ‘the worst of all worlds’ is not where any of us would wish to find ourselves at the…

Labour’s confidence tricks

7 December 2024 9:00 am

There is nothing new, nor necessarily fatal, about making a poor start in government. Margaret Thatcher had a torrid first…

What Scott Bessent’s appointment means for Trump 2.0

30 November 2024 9:00 am

How rare it is to be given a second chance. That’s what the American people have handed Donald Trump. His…

Letters: Labour’s attack on farmers

30 November 2024 9:00 am

Losing the plot Sir: Your leading article ‘Blight on the land’ (23 November) is right to call out the hypocrisy…

What does the City really think of the Chancellor?

23 November 2024 9:00 am

Regular invitations to Mansion House banquets petered out after I asked a shifty-looking waiter for a glass of champagne and…

Rachel Reeves can still repair the damage done to farming

23 November 2024 9:00 am

The Chancellor of the Exchequer found time this week to edit her own page on the social media site LinkedIn.…

My bid to be chancellor of Oxford

2 November 2024 9:00 am

I have spent the past couple of weeks in Oxford rediscovering the art of conversation while campaigning for election as…

Rachel Reeves is taking us back to the 1970s

2 November 2024 9:00 am

The first fiscal event to be delivered by a female Chancellor of the Exchequer is a landmark moment, but in…

Wahed’s alarming Tube adverts

26 October 2024 9:00 am

As the interminable Budget wait goes on, so does the trawl through the Chancellor’s bin bags. I refer to the…

The rise of anti-Elonism

19 October 2024 9:00 am

You can tell a lot about a country by who it admires. I was pleasantly surprised some years ago to…

In defence of eating out

19 October 2024 9:00 am

Scheduling the Budget almost four months after their election victory would have counted as a monumental misjudgment for the Labour…

Does Keir Starmer have a soul?

12 October 2024 9:00 am

One of the main arguments against hereditary peerages is that talent and ability are not always passed down across generations.…

The sugared-almond theory of economic consequence

12 October 2024 9:00 am

Let me ease you gently into a big and boring-sounding word for a small dishonesty that today corrupts the language…

The Mad Men theory of drunk decision-making

28 September 2024 9:00 am

In electing this government, we seem to have picked the worst of both worlds: higher taxation combined with austerity in…