‘A step-change’: tech firms battle for undersea dominance with submarine drones
As navies seek to counter submarines and protect cables, startups and big defence companies fight to lead market
‘Mortified’ OBR chair hopes inquiry into budget leak will report next week
Reuters news agency says it obtained document after visiting URL it predicted file would be uploaded to
Budget tax rises may be ‘fiscal fiction’ as pain delayed for election year, IFS warns
Labour MPs welcome scrapping of two-child benefit cap but worry about hefty future tax increases on constituents
Government to ditch day-one unfair dismissal policy from workers’ rights bill
Flagship Labour plan to be replaced with six-month threshold after Peter Kyle vows to not let businesses ‘lose’ under new law
The chancellor’s growth mission is missing in action
Businesses grumble about lack of ambition and urgency as Rachel Reeves continues to shy away from meaningful tax reform
Ministers face calls to explain how £6bn Send funding hole will be paid for
Bridget Phillipson tells MPs that Send costs in England will not fall on core schools funding but on government budget
Starmer says budget did not break manifesto tax pledge – as it happened
PM says: ‘We kept to our manifesto in terms of what we’ve promised. But I accept the challenge that we’ve asked everybody to contribute’
Energy minister says UK must ‘do whatever it takes’ to avoid gas supply crisis
Official advisers urge government to address situation that could mean homes and businesses going without on coldest days
Rachel Reeves’s budget creates tax break for rich former non-doms
Cap on inheritance tax paid by their offshore trusts will only help those worth more than £83m, say experts
‘It was just … meh’: the voters who feel ‘tinkering’ budget let them down
Research group More in Common spoke to former ‘blue wall’ constituents unimpressed by ‘chaotic’ U-turns
Freeze on student loan repayment threshold could leave graduates struggling, NUS warns
Graduates in relatively low-paid jobs earning close to minimum wage will have to repay ‘more, much sooner’
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
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