Betting taxes, business rates and minimum wage changes will all have an effect on the horse world

Budget fiasco: That the whole of Wednesday’s Budget was erroneously published by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) an hour before chancellor Rachel Reeves (pictured) stood up to give her spee

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December 2025

H&H news editor Eleanor Jones recaps this year’s big stories, and assesses what lies ahead in 2026

All chancellors are adept at giving with one hand and taking with another. Rachel Reeves is no exception. In last week’s Budget, she handed small businesses in England a seemingly attractive cut in th