Spring Statement 2025 speech - GOV.UK
Spring Statement 2025 speech as delivered by Chancellor Rachel Reeves.| GOV.UK
Spring Statement 2025 speech as delivered by Chancellor Rachel Reeves.| GOV.UK
Chancellor vows to bring about “new era of security and national renewal” as she delivered a Spring Statement to kickstart economic growth, protect working people and keep Britain safe.| GOV.UK
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. The spending review may have given us the headlines but a flurry of announcements on Wednesday fills in much of the detail about what the governme…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. This spending review represents a good start on housing – but it must only be a start. Highlights of the package delivered by chancellor Rachael Reeves on Wednesday included £39 billion over 10 years for the Affordable Homes Programme (AHP) and a 10-year rent settlement of CPI plus 1 […]| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. With a week to go until the most consequential spending review for ten years, the Treasury is facing desperate last-ditch lobbying from department…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. Just for a change, housing looks like one of the winners from the Spring Statement – but is everything quite what it seems? On housebuilding overa…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. What’s not to like about the prospect of ‘the biggest boost to social and affordable housing in a generation’? The promise often repeated by Angel…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. After a relentless week of grim international news, it’s good to have something to celebrate on the domestic and housing front. Until the sp…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. A final verdict will have to wait for the spending review in the Spring but how should we assess the first Labour Budget for 14 years? The answer …| Jules Birch
Writer and editor, mostly about housing and social policy. Blogger at Inside Housing. Ageing footballer| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. Labour’s huge election victory is undoubtedly good news for housing but will it take this once-in-a-generation chance to prove that ‘change’ is mo…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. Given a backdrop of grim economic times and successive election defeats, this was always going to be a cautious Labour manifesto. So the good news…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. What should we be aiming for in housing policy? Read just about any government’s green or white paper published over the last 30 years and the ans…| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. The prospects for housing investment look bleak whoever wins the election – and that is looking on the bright side – but there was an interesting …| Jules Birch
Originally written as a column for Inside Housing. The good news in Jeremy Hunt’s speech is that the government has finally listened to all the arguments about soaring rents, evictions and homeless…| Jules Birch
