You can’t trick the markets with extra borrowing, experts and former chancellor warn Burnham

Former Conservative chancellor Phillip Hammond told The Independent that the bond markets ‘will see straight through this ruse and price UK debt up accordingly’

Investors may be “less than impressed” by John Healey’s plans to increase borrowing by £9bn a year to take stakes in assets such as infrastructure, analysts have warned.  On Tuesday evening, it was reported that the new Chancellor and Treasury ministers were working on a proposal to deploy billions in the direction of

The Treasury is said to be looking to exploit Labour's fiscal rules to provide billions of pounds more for spending in a scramble for economic growth.

The state pension is set to increase, under the new Labour Party Prime Minister and his Chancellor, next spring as a result.