Exclusive: Britain’s biggest retailers have warned Rachel Reeves that Labour’s core manifesto pledge to improve living standards will be put at risk if she pushes ahead with further tax rises in her budget Some of Britain’s biggest companies, including Tesco, Sainsbury’s, John

Angela Rayner and Keir Starmer:

Construction firms are ‘lagging behind’ as confidence plummets bit.ly/4ne9tSb

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I’m so shocked by the huge quantity of social media posts and clips of woke left fanatics gleefully celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder. It’s so brazen, so dehumanised, so disgusting. What the f*ck is wrong with these people? Elon Musk is right - wokeism is an insidious virus.

Landowners have threatened to walk away from the scheme after rents were slashed by around 90%.

‘Would you be scared of a Farage premiership?’ ‘I’d be terrified.’ Former Dragon’s Den star Theo Paphitis worries that Reform’s deportation plan will end with ‘people in balaclavas pulling people off the streets’.

I’m on a train that’s just arrived 10 minutes EARLY into London Euston. Wondering now if on the way we passed through a wormhole the led to an alternative UK.

Over 150 high-rise schemes stuck in limbo as red tape clogs up UK construction bit.ly/4pOtkJT

Unless ministers act soon, the plan to bring 5G to every part of the country by 2030 will be in real trouble. ✍️Thomas Evans on how a law most people have never heard of is about to block a new generation of mobile masts capx.co/our-telecoms-i…

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Construction output weakens as gloom persists bit.ly/4nSYIWn

“They are gaslighting the public.” Ministers “really need to stop making these public announcements" about housebuilding without talking to people in the industry first, says Steve Mulholland, chief executive of the Construction Plant-hire Association. Stig Abell | #TimesRadio

📢 Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) Chief Executive Officer Steve Mulholland was interviewed this morning by Stig Abell on Times Radio. Steve spoke about Labour’s unrealistic 1.5 million housebuilding target and anti-growth policies. Listen in 👇

"I don't believe them for one minute!" Steven Mulholland from the Construction Plant-Hire Association says the Government is "gaslighting" builders on house building targets and that they are 'liars'. Peter Cardwell

🧱 UK needs 150,000 extra builders to hit Labour’s 1.5m homes target, experts warn telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/…

The pre-Budget frenzy continues. EXCL: Rachel Reeves warned tiny proportion of £834bn projects on track before Budget express.co.uk/news/politics/…