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New - Big Budget exclusive. Reeves looking to extend the "Tory" income tax threshold freeze beyond 2028, raising at least £7bn and helping to close her £40bn funding gap, also revealed this week by the Financial Times. With Sam Fleming (FT) ft.com/content/13acec…

Big Financial Times scoop overnight - US now willing to contribute up to $20bn into a joint G7 loan for Ukraine, with officials eyeing an agreement next week ft.com/content/b3b869… w crack transatlantic frassets crew Paola Tamma James Politi & Sam Fleming (FT)

"Reeves...cannot spend more, borrow less and keep taxes where they are. This was apparent at the election. Her choice to invest, tax, borrow and spend day-to-day is a reasonable way to address the trade offs." on.ft.com/3BZFYRM by Chris Giles

Everything you need to know about ⁦the⁩ Budget in today’s ⁦FT Weekend⁩ - from a history of CGT, analysis of the £40bn fiscal gap, IHT options and this scoop. With the excellent ⁦Sam Fleming (FT)⁩ ⁦Emma Agyemang⁩ and ⁦Claer Barrett⁩ on.ft.com/4f6gpNg

"It’s a policy that is harming basically everyone," Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas tells Financial Times of widespread tariffs, which IMF modelled the impact of in its latest WEO. "It’s harming the rest of the world. It’s harming the US." ft.com/content/f7c31e… Sam Fleming (FT)

IMF sees potential for the BoE to accelerate rate cuts as it upgrades UK growth forecast ft.com/content/95e986… via @ft

💥 US confirms it will contribute $20bn to the $50bn G7 loan to Ukraine, backed by profits raised on Russian sovereign assets immobilised in the west as the Financial Times reported last week ft.com/content/9ec563…

How FT readers are faring in the Budget Game ft.com/content/5ccb73… via @ft

Rachel Reeves confirms change to UK fiscal rules to help fund £20bn investment ft.com/content/091ca9… via @ft

Rachel Reeves in the FT: My fiscal rules will provide the stability on which growth depends ft.com/content/7258f7… via @ft

Rachel Reeves seeks to reassure business ahead of Budget tax rises ft.com/content/46c4fa… via @ft

Free to play: Health. Education. Welfare. Defence spending. Investment. Welfare. You have six weeks to devise your first Budget and kickstart the economy. What’s your plan? on.ft.com/3AcskKD

Faulty jobs data leaves UK hiring picture uncertain, economists say ft.com/content/84f061… via @ft

Free to play: The Budget looms large and you have promised to stick to a set of fiscal rules. What will your plan for the UK economy look like? on.ft.com/3AerZaq

This is quite a list from Jim Pickard 🐋 …..Did Labour mislead UK public ahead of Budget? ft.com/content/07feaa… via @ft

UK borrowing costs hit highest level this year after Budget ft.com/content/483303… via @ft

UK borrowing costs hit highest level this year as gilt market sell-off intensifies ft.com/content/483303… via @ft

A look back at an extraordinary week in British politics: the Budget, the fallout and the political and market reckoning. Analysis with ⁦Sam Fleming (FT)⁩ ft.com/content/9ad966…

A Budget special at the end of a momentous week presented by Lucy Fisher with Sam Fleming (FT) and Soumaya Keynes

My latest for FT Alphaville: Still not convinced "the economy" mattered as much as the exit polls suggested it did in the US election? Here are 10 charts: ft.com/content/b0a603… Seven to start with below 1/8