Rachel Reeves has taken a massive gamble - on the economy, on Labour's political fortunes and on her own future as Chancellor. Her gargantuan spending spree in this week's eagerly-awaited Spending Review set the clock ticking on all three.

Investment announced by Reeves will not be enough to improve gloomy economic prospects for young people, economists warned

Labour MPs saw a different side to Rachel Reeves on Wednesday evening. Fresh from delivering her spending review, the chancellor faced a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party, telling them to go out and “sell” what she had just announced to voters.

A private school has been forced to close after citing Rachel Reeves's VAT raid on school fees as a key reason. In a letter to parents, Bishop Challoner School in Bromley, Kent, stated that the introduction of the 20 per cent tax on school fees at the start of the year,

Rachel Reeves reeled off a dizzying list of wildly varying numbers and time horizons, covering programme after programme funded in Britain’s spending review. Over the next five years, £14bn ($19bn) would go to a new nuclear plant.

Ms Reeves was visiting Wales in the wake of her decision to allocate Wales £445m for rail projects in her multi-year spending review this week

The Institute for Fiscal Studies has warned Rachel Reeves that any more bad economic news will “almost certainly” spark fresh tax rises. Council tax will already have to rise at its fastest rate in a generation,

Rachel Reeves refuses to rule out Autumn Budget tax rises as economy shrinks 0.3% in April - Latest GDP estimate worse than the 0.1% fall expected by economists

The UK economy shrank by 0.3% during April after Donald Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on foreign imports, official numbers show. It’s a blow to Rachel Reeves, who tried to splash the cash for government departments in her spending review yesterday.

Rachel Reeves has announced an extra £29bn per year for the NHS, along with funding boosts for defence and housing, as she set out her spending plans for the coming years. Speaking in the House of Commons,