As Chancellor, a newly ennobled Lord Brown would command the respect of international financiers like no other Labour ...

Every Labour chancellor has a primal fear of falling foul of the financial markets – and with good reason. Stretching all the ...

Pat McFadden has emerged as the favourite to replace Rachel Reeves if Sir Keir Starmer bows to pressure to sack his ...

After a gloomy start to the year, the chancellor has a new mantra – ‘Just Say Yes’. But will Treasury support for airport expansion and a war on nimbyism turn around a miserable economy, asks Andrew G ...

Brown, the UK’s longest-serving chancellor, prided himself on his prudence. “Prudence with a purpose” was one of his slogans andThe Prudence of Mr Gordon Brown was the title of William ...

Gordon Brown has declared he does not support the ... four days after her birth in December 2001, when he was the chancellor. She was just 11 days old when she died. He said: “We were fully ...

Ros Altmann argues the Chancellor’s raid on prudent savers is ‘horribly reminiscent’ of the ‘fatal blow’ Gordon Brown inflicted when he removed dividend tax credits from UK pension funds ...

Chancellor Gordon Brown announced that bookmakers would be taxed on their gross profits at a rate of 15%. He is scrapping the system in which the Government collects betting duty of 6.75% from ...

Sir Keir Starmer has appointed Michael Ellam, a former adviser to Gordon Brown, to lead his reset negotiations with the EU.

The chancellor is caught in a credibility trap, where abiding by one promise made in the name of credibility undermines ...