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The Independent

25 November 2025

Rachel Reeves wants to achieve these five things with her Budget – it won’t be easy

In recent days, Ms Reeves, the UK’s first female chancellor, has accused her critics of “mansplaining” how to be chancellor – something which she says motivates her to show she is making the right decisions.

But the problem is that she remains deeply unpopular with the public (-52 per cent according to More In Common polling released on Monday). The anger some of her decisions have caused among backbenchers has also raised serious questions about her future as chancellor.

The Express

24 November 2025

Humiliation for Rachel Reeves as even Labour voters think she's a terrible Chancellor

The pre-Budget survey, by More in Common, found voters would even prefer to bring back the last Conservative government, despite the chaos of its final few years. It found 68% of voters thin former Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who later became Prime Minister, would be a batter Chancellor than Ms Reeves, and 65% said the same about former Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt. On top of that, 63% say Rishi Sunak would make a better Prime Minister than Sir Keir - and that includes 27% of Labour voters.

The Independent

24 November 2025

Two thirds of voters want Reeves to cut spending rather than hike taxes in Budget

More than two thirds of voters would rather Rachel Reeves cut government spending than increase taxes in the Budget, new polling this week has revealed.

Data from More in Common also points to a majority of people thinking that Sir Keir Starmer is doing a bad job, while fewer than one in five think he is doing well.

According to More in Common, the prime minister has a poll rating of -51, one of the worst in recent history. This is made up of 68 per cent of Britons who think that Sir Keir is doing a bad job, compared to just 17 per cent who think he is doing a good job.

Meanwhile, just days before the Budget, the chancellor Rachel Reeve’s approval rating is even worse at -52, also the lowest More in Common has recorded for her.

The Times

22 November 2025

Chancellor to scrap two-child benefit cap but pledge welfare reform

However, a poll by the More In Common think tank suggests that 67 per cent of Britons would rather Reeves filled the fiscal black hole by cutting spending on public services than by raising taxes on working people.

The survey of 2,007 people between November 18-19 also found that 47 per cent of people say that extending the freeze would break Labour’s manifesto promise not to raise income tax.

The Sunday Times

22 November 2025

Chancellor to scrap two-child benefit cap but pledge welfare reform

Reeves plans to: raise tens of billions of pounds by freezing income tax thresholds for an extra two years to 2030; impose national insurance above a new cap on ­salary sacrifice schemes, affecting pension pots; revalue council tax on the top-band properties and impose a surcharge on the most expensive; and introduce a pay-per-mile scheme on electric cars.

However, a poll by the More In Common think tank suggests that 67 per cent of Britons would rather Reeves filled the fiscal black hole by cutting spending on public services than by raising taxes on working people.

The survey of 2,007 people between November 18-19 also found that 47 per cent of people say that extending the freeze would break Labour’s manifesto promise not to raise income tax.

The Telegraph

21 November 2025

I am British and I am Jewish. Here I stand

In fact much of my local area is suffused with memories of that terrible day. Even a visit to my local kosher shop – a favourite for its chopped liver – is shadowed by tragedy: Melvin Kravitz, who worked there, was one of the two victims. It’s hard not to think of his family’s harrowing grief while browsing the aisles.

So it’s hardly surprising that, according to new research by think tank More in Common, the attack on Heaton Park synagogue is cited as a key reason why nearly half of those surveyed believe the UK is no longer a safe place for Jewish people.