Jeremy Warner

It’s supposed to be the most consequential Budget since … I don’t know, since Pitt the Younger tripled the windows tax and introduced a tax on income for the first time to help pay for the Napoleonic Wars?

Precious metal could offer inflation hedge for IMF-defiant economies as geopolitical crises take hold

Next week’s Budget looks likely to decimate party’s manifesto pledges

Gilts haven’t looked this vulnerable to a loss of confidence since the mini-Budget

Never mind twisting the fiscal rules so as to allow a lot more borrowing for investment spending.

Labour seemingly wants to emulate the Continent’s ruinous economic approach

One of Rachel Reeves' many promises was to run the most pro-business Treasury ever. Looking at the detail of her first Budget , you would be hard pressed to find anything of substance to justify such an extravagant claim.

Rachel Reeves has made one thing clear – the Thatcher-Blair pro-enterprise economic consensus is dead

Investors had hoped for an economic plan. Instead they got a masterclass in the art of patching things up

Labour’s plans to ramp up borrowing and spending are leaving the country just one crisis away from catastrophe