Here are 5 important things happening in the UK today, Monday (1 December 2025):
- Labour’s economic plan will take years to deliver, says Starmer: Labour’s economic plan will take years to deliver in full, Keir Starmer has said as he tries to regain the narrative after a turbulent response to last week’s budget. In an article for the Guardian, the prime minister hit back at his political opponents, insisting the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, was right to impose £26 billion worth of tax rises. He also promised a long-term plan that he said should be judged at the end of the parliament. [Guardian]
- Only 153 migrants deported in one in, one out deal with France: Strict conditions on asylum seekers applying to come to the UK under the one in, one out deal with France has meant that only one in 90 migrants have been removed under the scheme. Under the terms of the deal, Britain must accept an asylum seeker from France for each small boat migrant removed in the other direction. The scheme is designed to encourage genuine asylum seekers to apply to come to the UK legally rather than risk the dangerous small boat crossings. [The Times]
- Reeves denies she misled public over UK’s finances: Chancellor Rachel Reeves has rejected claims she misled the public about the nation’s finances in the run-up to her Budget. Reeves was challenged on the BBC to explain why she had repeatedly warned about a downgrade to the UK’s economic productivity forecasts – including in a speech on 4 November – ahead of Wednesday’s Budget.It has since emerged the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) told her in mid-September the public finances were in better shape than widely thought, with Reeves omitting to mention a forecast of higher wages. [BBC]
- Public back fitting drink-drivers’ cars with breathalysers: The public back fitting drink drivers’ cars with breathalysers. A survey by the RAC found 82 per cent support for forcing convicted drink drivers to use alcoclocks before they get on the road. Alcolocks are devices which prevent a vehicle from being started or driven unless the motorist passes a breath test. They are used in several countries – such as Australia, Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands and the US – in return for shorter driving bans. [Telegraph]
- On Monday, Oil was trading flat at $62.64. The pound is trading at $1.32, €1.14, and ¥9.35.
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