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Watch live: Ministers depart Downing Street for Labour’s Budget announcement Watch live as Rachel Reeves and other Labour ministers depart Downing Street on Wednesday, 30 October, ahead of the party’s first Budget in 14 years. The chancellor is expected to hold the red box outside Number 10 before she, Sir Keir Starmer, and their colleagues file into the House of Commons. In her speech later today, she is expected to say the “prize on offer” is “immense”, and she will lay out new funding to cut hospital waiting lists, build more affordable homes and rebuild crumbling schools. “More pounds in…

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Budget 2024: How would a Fuel Duty rise affect you? Keir Starmer has refused to rule out that Labour will raise Fuel Duty in its October budget after he warned some of the coming measures would be “painful.” The move could come alongside a number of expected cuts and tax rises at the party’s first fiscal event as Rachel Reeves looks to plug the £22bn ‘black hole’ in public spending which she says the previous Conservative government concealed. This will likely come as unwelcome news to motorists who are struggling with other rising costs amid the ongoing cost of living…

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Today: Another cloudy day after mist and fog clear through the morning in the south. Cloud lifting in places with some bright or sunny spells developing. Breezier in the north with a few light showers, but remaining mild throughout. Tonight: Rather cloudy, with some outbreaks of drizzle here and there. An increasing chance of some breaks developing in the cloud across the south with a risk of fog developing. Source: Met Office

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