Keir Starmer says Labour ‘kept to our manifesto’ over budget tax rises

PM seeks to rebuff claims government broke its promises while conceding budget ‘asked everybody to contribute’

Analysts back British gambling firm stocks despite tax rises for sector

Paddy Power owner Flutter and other betting and gaming firms say higher online gambling taxes will hit profits hard

‘The customers are still there’: Welsh mussel farmers hope post-Brexit reset can revive business

Shellfish exports to the EU from the Menai Strait have all but collapsed, but fishers are looking to the future

Estate of Johnny Cash suing Coca-Cola for using tribute act in advert

The company is being sued under the new Elvis act, which protects a person’s voice from exploitation without consent

Income tax threshold freeze will hit poorer households harder, experts say

Move will have greater impact on living standards of taxpayers in bottom half of income scale, thinktanks say

US banks announce UK expansion projects hours after budget

JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs reveal plans for London and Birmingham as sector is spared tax rises

‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise

Rachel Reeves’s new council tax surcharge on homes worth £2m or more earns mixed reception in well-heeled London borough

‘Struggling to pay the bills’: Britons under pressure react to budget 2025

As they struggle with the cost of living, people weigh up whether Rachel Reeves’s measures will help them

Rachel Reeves’s budget has inflamed, not calmed, Britain’s febrile mood

The chancellor’s statement will be remembered for the many taxes it raised, rather than the big one – income tax – it did not, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

New rules crack down on high risk loans as Australian property market heats up

Regulator announces 20% cap on share of new lending banks can do on mortgages worth more than six times borrower’s income

Gopichand Hinduja obituary

Billionaire businessman who as head of his family’s vast conglomerate topped the UK rich lists

Rachel Reeves targets UK’s wealthiest in £26bn tax-raising budget

Chancellor axes two-child benefit cap and cuts energy bills paid for by mansion tax and freezing tax thresholds

OBR warns Reeves’s budget still leaves public finances in ‘vulnerable’ position

Damaging events could knock finances off course, says Treasury’s independent forecaster as it downgrades growth outlook

How Rachel Reeves’s budget was leaked 40 minutes early

By the time the chancellor reached the dispatch box, the OBR had accidentally published its verdict in full online

Relief for retailers as business rate changes in budget not as bad as feared

Sainsbury’s chief executive says ‘industry concerns have been heard’, although others outside retail industry are left frustrated by changes