Rachel Reeves

The number of homes being given full planning consent has halved since 2020, says David J Alexander

Housing is Cinderella sector of Scotland's economy

Prime Minister Andy Burnham and his wife Marie-France van Heel talk to Ivy Knighton-Leake, aged six, one of the UK's youngest Poppy Appeal collectors, in Manchester (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Don't wear poppies in October and they'll have more meaning

John Healey leaves 11 Downing Street with (second left-right) Financial Secretary to the Treasury James Murray, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Emma Reynolds, Economic Secretary to the Treasury Lucy Rigby and Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury Dan Tomlinson before delivering his first Budget to the Houses of Parliament

Analysis Healey’s standstill Budget highlights a debilitating fiscal status quo

Budget 2026: Chancellor’s U-turn on ISA allowance branded ‘backward step’

John Healey’s first Budget will be a key indication of the Burnham premiership’s direction (Picture: Betty Laura Zapata/PA Wire)

John Healey needs to find some carrots for housing sector

Prime Minister Andy Burnham, right, and Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey during a visit to a pub in Harlow, Essex

Is Britain heading for a 1970s-style debt crisis? Paul Wilson

Rachel Reeves (Aaron Chown/PA)

Here's who is replacing Rachel Reeves at her cancelled Edinburgh show

Prime Minister Andy Burnham

Burnham criticised for using private jet from Glasgow to Manchester

Andy Burnham waves with his wife Marie-France van Heel

Burnham's ruthless purge of cabinet as Starmer allies shown the door

Andy Burnham was confirmed as Labour leader on Friday afternoon

Analysis Burnham shows he can connect with public much better than Starmer

Andy Burnham's victory rally at Ashton Town FC after being elected as Makerfield MP

Who will be in Andy Burnham's cabinet?

Sir Keir Starmer during his last Prime Minister's Questions

Analysis Sir Keir Starmer able to mock self in emotional last ever PMQs

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves

Andy Burnham should listen to words of warning from Rachel Reeves Scotsman comment

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband (Maja Smiejkowska/PA)

Exclusive Scots Labour MPs worried about Ed Miliband becoming chancellor

Chancellor Rachel Reeves says she is backing Andy Burnham to be the next Prime Minister.

Rachel Reeves: I'm backing Andy Burnham

Andy Burnham MP

Andy Burnham step closer to becoming PM as Darren Jones endorses him

Andy Burnham is poised to become the next prime minister

Analysis What will Andy Burnham as prime minister mean for Scotland?

Andy Burnham takes a selfie in Westminster Hall with his new Labour parliamentary colleagues.

Burnham enters amid hope - but not euphoria - as his real test begins Brian Wilson

Disclaimers put many people off investing, says Adrian Murphy

Are we sleepwalking into a financial advice crisis?

Dean and Tasso outside Haar in St Andrews (Pic: Submitted)

Scottish chefs shine spotlight on VAT cut with 'funfair restaurants'

M&D’s in Motherwell

Summer attractions VAT cut may spark 'bumper' season for high streets

The last King's Speech was in July 2024

What will be in the King's Speech today?

A gloomy economic picture in Aberdeen has been blamed on government policy decisions

Aberdeen businesses warn of 'growing gap' between North East and UK

Alex Cole-Hamilton, leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar and SNP leader and First Minister John Swinney debate during a hustings event in the run-up to the Holyrood election

Is it the economy, stupid, that will decide the Holyrood election? Paul Wilson

From left, Meera Louis, communications officer at IMF, Tobias Adrian, director of monetary and capital markets at IMF, Athanasios Vamvakidis, deputy director of monetary and capital markets at IMF, and Jason Wu, assistant director of monetary and capital markets at IMF, participate in a press briefing about the IMF's Global Financial Stability Report in Washington DC

‘Aberdeen should be booming’ says Trump in call for more North Sea oil

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer

Starmer accused of 'Brexit betrayal' as UK could sign up to EU rules

A no diesel available sign on a petrol station forecourt at a Tesco superstore in Kettering

Swinney shifts position on North Sea drilling amid energy crisis

The Tory motion on oil and gas was well beaten

MPs vote against motion on new North Sea oil and gas projects

The UK is continuing to pay a heavy price for Brexit (Picture: Ben Stansall)

Reeves spells out 'the truth' about Brexit and getting closer to EU Scotsman comment

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Scotland to receive £4.6m from UK Government in heating oil support

Torness near Dunbar is Scotland's last remaining nuclear power station (Picture: Danny Lawson)

UK Government funds £14m Scots nuclear research involving 100 students

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivering her spring statement to MPs in the House of Commons

Rachel Reeves' ‘do nothing’ statement when the world is in tumult John McLaren

Chancellor Rachel Reeves leaves 11 Downing Street on her way to presenting the Spring Statement in the Commons (Picture: Leon Neal)

Reeves misses chance to help business – and Scottish Labour Scotsman comment

Rachel Reeves

Rachel Reeves branded 'tone deaf' on energy in Spring Statement

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves leaving 11 Downing Street, London, for the House of Commons to deliver her spring statement to MPs

How will Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement affect Scots?

Chancellor Rachel Reeves

Analysis Spring statement will be 'policy lite' - but all eyes on the forecasts

Chancellor Rachel Reeves with Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar

Chancellor told to axe energy profits levy and boost Holyrood funding

Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivering her Spring Statement in the House of Commons last year. (Picture: House of Commons/PA Wire)

Businesses plead with Reeves: Give us a break from constant volatility

Chancellor Rachel Reeves points at a chart showing a fall in household energy bills at Octopus Energy's offices in London (Picture: Jack Taylor)

Why there's a silver lining to the cloud of doom hanging over Labour Scotsman comment

Inflation falls to 3%: What this means for interest rates, borrowers and savers

Donald MacKinnon, right, with Scottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie during last year's lambing season

MSP hopeful passes up own fundraiser with Chancellor for his sheep

Cabinet rallies around Starmer as Sarwar says he should quit as PM
The Scottish Labour leader said in a hastily arranged press conference in Glasgow that Sir Keir should step down - but prime minister tells MPs at Westminster h...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves. Photo: Kirsty O'Connor / Treasury.

Exclusive Reeves thanks MPs for Commons interventions in 'charm offensive'

Imogen Walker was elected as Labour MP for Hamilton and Clyde Valley in 2024

Exclusive Morgan McSweeney's wife has spoken least in Commons of Scottish MPs

Sir Tom Hunter (Picture: Lesley Martin)

Sir Tom Hunter calls for pub ban for all Scottish Government ministers

An oil rig in the North Sea

Oil and gas windfall tax 'didn't feature' in North Sea board meeting

UK inflation jumps to 3.4%: What this means for mortgages and interest rates

Premier Inn owner Whitbread flags revised £35 million business rates hit

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will be desperate to see any green shoots of recovery in the economy (Picture: Leon Neal)

New Year brings two 'green shoots' of economic recovery for UK Scotsman comment

Sir Keir Starmer and Lady Victoria Starmer, right, with Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at Chequers during the US President's state visit in September

Review of the year part 3: Reeves weeps, Trump visits and Rayner quits

Susan Smith, centre left, and Marion Calder, centre right, co-directors of For Women Scotland with campaigners celebrate outside the Supreme Court in London after the ruling on the terms "woman" and "sex"

Review of the year, part 2: The definition of a woman

The Budget

A deep dive into fine details of the Budget now dust begins to settle

Sir Jim Ratcliffe

Ineos boss Jim Ratcliffe slams 'idiotic' UK government carbon taxes

Rachel Reeves during a visit to Ineos FPS headquarters in Grangemouth

Reeves dismisses claim 1,000 jobs lost a month due to windfall tax

The Grangemouth petrochemical plant

UK Government pledges £120m to save Grangemouth chemical plant

St Andrew's House is the Scottish Government's headquarters, based in Edinburgh.

Exclusive SNP urged to cut tax for talented overseas workers to attract skills

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

Yousaf: Growing popular support for Yes the only way to Scottish independence

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SNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries