Rachel Reeves has vowed to “invest, invest, invest” as she prepares to ramp up borrowing to fund a multibillion-pound capital programme at this month’s Budget. But the UK chancellor also sought to assure jittery markets, telling the Financial Times she […]
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rachel Reeves has attacked her predecessor for cutting back on planned investment as she cleared the way for billions of
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Roger Whitfield, an independent local councillor in the West Country town of Portishead, is waiting anxiously to learn whether chancellor Rachel Reeves will make good on Labour’s investment pledges when she delivers her first Budget later this month. Before the
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s ambitions to borrow billions more for investment are set to bump up against tight constraints in the
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Bank of England has held interest rates at 5 per cent after inflation remained steady in August, but indicated
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the UK inflation myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. UK inflation held steady at 2.2 per cent in August, leaving the door open for the Bank of England to
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Cutting public investment in the UK would damage the “foundations of the economy,” a group of leading economists has warned
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Eurozone inflation fell sharply to 2.2 per cent in August, bolstering expectations that the European Central Bank will reduce interest
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