Full text of Chancellor Rachel Reeves' Budget speech to House of Commons on 30 October 2024. This is the text of the speech as published by the Treasury, some minor changes to actual deliver may have been made and some political comments have been redacted by the Treasury.

More than 1 in 2 IFAs (53%) question the economic competency of the Labour Government, a new poll has found.

Financial advisers have reported a surge in worried clients contacting them with Budget-related questions on pensions taxation and wealth management, a survey has revealed.

While we wait for the Budget and its threatened changes to pensions taxation with bated breath, it’s worth remembering that the public is beginning to accept that retirement, while not yet extinct as a notion, is not quite what it was.

I hope you are enjoying your penny off a pint of beer, as proclaimed in the Budget, possibly the most pathetic 'giveaway' announced in any Budget I can recall.