The Guardian’s special correspondent Heather Stewart analyses Labour’s first budget in government for more than 14 years

The overall tax burden will reach a record 38.3% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2027-28.

All further Looe Land Train events for the half term have been cancelled

Family farms will be hit with the tax after Chancellor unveils plans to scale back agricultural relief on land valued at more than £1m

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Chancellor hopes cash injection for NHS and extra money for public services will make public forgive higher taxes and slow growth

Chancellor’s solutions to improving economy and public services will be a radical change for country

Chancellor announces biggest raft of tax hikes in any budget since 1993

Axel Rudakubana is accused of producing a biological toxin ricin and accessing Al-Qaeda materials

A BOY has been stabbed to death yards away from a primary school – as another teen is arrested. The 17-year-old victim was fatally knifed in Marston Green, Solihull, West Mids., around 6.20pm…

Rachel Reeves is making history as the first female Chancellor of the Exchequer to deliver a budget on Wednesday (30 October). Ever since William Gladstone in the 1860s, the Chancellor of the Exchequer appears outside 11 Downing Street on budget day brandishing a red briefcase containing the chancellor’s annual plans. Equivalent to the finance minister in other countries, it’s the chancellor’s responsibility to ensure the government can collect enough income to cover its spending plans. And, ideally, to make sure everyone in the land is taxed fairly. Reeves is the first woman in a long line of male chancellors that stretches all the way back to 1066. The first ever ‘treasurer’ is believed to have served under William the Conquer during the Norman conquest.

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