Angela Rayner has encouraged Rachel Reeves to strip middle-class families of child benefits payments, it has been claimed. The Labour Deputy Prime Minister urged the treasury to 'claw back' the ...

Details of a secret memo sent by deputy prime minister Angela Rayner to chancellor Rachel Reeves calling for up to £4 billion of tax hikes have been called a “bitter blow for savers and ...

Angela Rayner has secretly called on Rachel Reeves to hit pensioners and other Britons with tax rises instead of cutting spending, a leaked memo has revealed. The Deputy Prime Minister has been ...

Which would leave the finger of suspicion pointing at one main culprit. Angela Rayner herself. ‘She deliberately briefed it,’ a minister claimed ‘she’s making a move. It’s pretty obvious.’ ...

Angela Rayner called for a major crackdown on immigration, a leaked memo reportedly shows. The Deputy Prime Minister urged Chancellor Rachel Reeves to usher in a raft of changes as she strayed ...

Angela Rayner called for migrant benefits to be slashed and urged Rachel Reeves to make changes, it has been reported, after the Deputy PM challenged the Chancellor's economic approach.

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"If Angela Rayner wants to represent communities like ours, she needs to show up. Leader of the Conservative group on Wolverhampton Council, Councillor Simon Bennett “But beyond that, we want to ...

Angela Rayner has slashed Sir Sadiq Khan’s affordable housing target by more than a fifth as the Mayor of London struggles to build in the capital. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local ...

But this week was a reminder that there is a fourth force: Angela Rayner. The Deputy Prime Minister’s leaked memo to Reeves, in which she proposed eight tax rises, has exposed the cabinet’s private ...

But Rayner knew that Reeves will almost certainly have to put up taxes in the Budget in October – something that is even more true now that she has to find the money to pay for the U-turn on ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...