UK finance minister Reeves trying to balance books with no tax hikes

NAMPA / DPA
2025-03-26
London (PA Media/dpa) - UK Finance Minister Rachel Reeves will acknowledge she needs to go "further and faster to kickstart growth" as she scrambles for savings to help balance the nation's books without hiking taxes. The chancellor of the exchequer, as the finance minister is known in the United Kingdom, will be forced to take action to stick to her rule of meeting day-to-day spending through tax receipts, rather than extra borrowing, in respons......
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