Month: June 2025

FTSE 100: Rachel Reeves in crisis as UK GDP falls and markets react

live Rachel Reeves presented her Spending Review yesterday (Image: Getty) Rachel Reeves is facing a crisis the morning after unveiling her Spending Review, as new figures have suggested that the UK economy shrank by more than 0.3% in April. It comes after the Chancellor…

Pathetic reason why migrants are still camped on UK’s billionaires’ row

a The Express got an angry response when it visited the camp last week (Image: Jeremy Selwyn) Migrants living in a camp on billionaires’ row have not been evicted because the council is too scared to remove them by force, it…

France’s shockingly ‘half-hearted’ effort to stop small boats amid plea for more UK cash

The French have been accused of being ‘half-hearted’ over efforts to prevent small boat crossings. (Image: Getty) Figures show that police in France have stopped a lower proportion of migrants crossing the English Channel this year, despite a £476 million deal with the UK. Analysis of Home…

‘Labour isn’t listening!’ Rachel Reeves sparks fury by making £3 bus cap hike ‘permanent’

Rachel Reeves will give her spending review on Wednesday (Image: Getty) Rachel Reeves has sparked fury by extending the £3 cap on bus fares until 2027. The Chancellor is expected to confirm the extension of the cap beyond 2025 at Wednesday’s spending review. Paul Kohler…

Kemi Badenoch takes swipe at Rachel Reeves over economic disaster

Rachel Reeves quizzed on future budgets after spending review Kemi Badenoch has used her first major speech on the economy as Tory leader to condemn Britain’s dual economic and political crises. Speaking at the FTSE 250 conference the day after Rachel…

Huge blow for Ed Miliband as new poll reveals Britons have turned against Net Zero

Kemi Badenoch slams Keir Starmer over net zero Britons are increasingly turning against Net Zero, as a bombshell poll reveals they now fear the impact it will have on the cost of living crisis. The survey from Merlin Strategy reveals that public mood…

Tax rises ‘now inevitable’ to pay for Reeves’s £2trn spending

Rachel Reeves delivers her spending review in the Commons on Wednesday (Image: PA ) Economists have warned Rachel Reeves’s £2.2 trillion spending plans could mean more pain in the pocket for British taxpayers in the future. The Chancellor was triumphant as she…

POLL: Should Rachel Reeves be sacked as economy shrinks unexpectedly?

POLL Rachel Reeves unveiled her Spending Review on Wednesday (Image: Getty) Chancellor  Rachel Reeves said she was “investing in Britain’s renewal” when she set out spending plans for the next five years but she suffered a huge blow today as official figures showed…

Keir Starmer’s Gibraltar sell-out explained as I expose David Lammy’s key surrender

Mark Francois tears into government over Gibraltar Yesterday morning a shiver went down my spine when I saw the news that David Lammy had travelled down to Gibraltar in the dead of night for ‘negotiations’. To appropriate a Ronald Reagan…

Furious BBC Question Time row erupts as Labour minister makes ridiculous migrant claim

QT: MP says that’s ‘not true’ over migrant crossing claim A Labour minister faced fury over claims most small boat migrants are women and children. Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones sensationally claimed on BBC Question Time that “the majority of the…