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Labour's Fiscal Tightrope: UK Economy on the Brink?

Labour's Fiscal Tightrope: UK Economy on the Brink?

Update: 2025-10-05
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Can Labour avoid a 1970s-style economic crisis? Keir Starmer's fiscal discipline faces a major test as debt soars and growth stalls. With a pivotal Budget looming, Chancellor Rachel Reeves must decide: stick to strict rules, raise taxes and risk recession, or loosen the purse strings and spook the markets? Business leaders are on edge, fearing the wrong move could trigger an economic disaster.

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Labour's Fiscal Tightrope: UK Economy on the Brink?

Labour's Fiscal Tightrope: UK Economy on the Brink?