In their rush to retain Donald Trump's support for NATO, the alliance's European members have promised to more than double ...

Ministers say the benefit reforms will help protect the welfare state for those who need it, but backbenchers warn the plans ...

The charts that show why Reeves’s spending plans are a fantasy. Szu Ping Chan . Wed, Jun 11, 2025, 1:03 PM 8 min read. ... Welfare spending, which sits outside Whitehall budgets, ...

The national debt already exceeds $36 trillion and is growing at historic rates. That has cascading consequences for the ...

Until we hear the chancellor's speech, and then see all of the documents in full on Wednesday, the story of the Spending ...

As a chess-player she must recognise that she is stuck in zugzwang: if the bill falls, meeting the fiscal rules gets harder.

The charts that show why Reeves’s spending plans are a fantasy While the numbers may tally on paper, economists are already questioning whether they will work in reality ...

According to budget documents, specifically the voluminous ‘Details of Demands for Grants and Appropriations 2025-26 (Current ...

Brülhart has no worries, either, about the welfare state being dismantled. “Defence spending could be boosted by making cuts to social welfare. That’s one scenario.

History supports Moody’s assessment that “successive US administrations and Congress have failed to agree on measures to ...

LONDON, June 30 (Reuters) - What matters in U.S. and global markets today Investors are keeping a wary eye on the progress of President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful" U.S. tax-cutting and spending ...