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Budget 2025: key points at a glance

Rachel Reeves has announced her financial update – here are the main points, with political analysis

Rachel Reeves has many problems. She’s realising that her Brexit bind may be the biggest of all

Brutal economic realities are prompting a shift in Labour’s tone on Europe. But will it dare tell the whole truth about Britain’s predicament, asks Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Rachel Reeves’s high-stakes autumn budget in five key charts

Chancellor to set out tax and spending plans shaped by weak productivity, high borrowing costs and cost of living crisis

UK politics: No 10 says no final decisions after leak reveals jury trials might be scrapped except for alleged rapists and killers – as it happened

Downing Street does not deny that justice secretary, David Lammy, is considering scrapping juries for most trials

Millions of UK workers to get pay rise as Reeves plans increased minimum wage

Chancellor says people must be ‘properly rewarded for their hard work’ with 16- to 21-year-olds also in line for raise

Rachel Reeves expected to scrap £300m in tax breaks for Motability scheme

Plan to remove relief from scheme that helps provide cars for disabled people likely to concern some Labour MPs

Reeves’s plan to cut cash Isa limit could raise mortgage rates, say finance bosses

Building societies fear consumers will be put off from saving if chancellor’s budget announces a 40% reduction

Heathrow airport’s £33bn third runway plan chosen by government

Scheme includes plan to move the M25 and could mean up to 760 more planes in the skies around London every day

UK politics: Risk of Maccabi Tel Aviv facing antisemitic attacks not ‘predominant’ reason for match ban, police tell MPs – as it happened

West Midlands police’s assistant chief constable says threat of violence by Maccabi fans was more important consideration

Reeves expected to reveal cut in growth forecasts for next five years in budget

OBR has reportedly downgraded predictions after review that blames lack of investment under Tories

Labour will listen to bosses’ concerns on workers’ rights, says business secretary

Peter Kyle tells CBI conference he will ensure firms do not lose as a result of overhaul

Reeves to launch crackdown on benefit fraud alongside lifting two-child limit

Move aims to bring in extra £1.2bn of savings as government seeks to head off criticism over welfare spending

UK launches critical minerals strategy to reduce dependency on China

Standoff between China and EU over supply of chips for car industry underlines value of sector requiring huge financial investment

Rachel Reeves promises to ‘grip the cost of living’ in autumn budget

Chancellor admits economy ‘feels stuck’ for many as she signals intention to freeze income tax thresholds

Rachel Reeves, please, let’s make budgets boring again

Budgets need to be reassuringly dull with no repeat of this year’s long, drawn-out and chaotic buildup

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