Joining us from his constituency in Stevenage, the Conservative MP Stephen McPartland and here in the studio Torsten Bell from the Resolution Foundation.
The Institute of Fiscal Studies comes out in support of the plan to raise national insurance contributions for some self-employed workers. It said the government HAD broken its manifesto pledge, but had been foolish ever to promise not to raise the tax in the first place. Helia Ebrahimi reports.
In the last Spring budget tomorrow few big shifts or radical changes are expected from the Chancellor.
Labour MP Angela Eagle, former shadow business secretary whose Merseyside constituency includes many workers at the Vauxhall plant, and Lord Howard, former leader of the Conservative party.
For a shade under £2bn, French car makers Peugeot have snapped up General Motors’ loss-making European business, including Britain’s Vauxhall.
The Chancellor has said he’ll take a cautious approach to public spending in this week’s Budget – despite the fact that improved economic forecasts suggest he’s going to receive a multi-billion pound tax windfall.
Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley has snapped up the upmarket lingerie firm Agent Provocateur – which had been placed into administration.
Workers are still being held back because of the colour of their skin. That’s according to a report commissioned by the government. It claims workers from ethnic minorities aren’t progressing at the same rate as their white counterparts and says the economy could be boosted by 24-billion-pounds if companies stamped out racial inequality.
Now what price a knighthood? Ask Sir Philip Green, and he might say £363 million. That is the amount the former owner of BHS today agreed to pay into the company’s pensions scheme.
Oops, they did it again. Another multi-billion pound loss, for the ninth year in a row. In fact, the Royal Bank of Scotland lost £7 billion last year, more than three times the amount they lost in 2015.
Siobhan Kennedy
For every one of the past nine years, Ross McEwan or his predecessor has used a bad results day to reassure investors of good times to come. Only those good times have failed yet again to materialise.
Jacquelyn Guderley, co-founder of Stemettes a social enterprise supporting young women into the science, technology, engineering and maths industries, and Merici Vinton, co-founder of Ada’s list, an online community that aims to connect and support women in tech.
The treasury has announced a major new initiative for the ailing publicly-owned Royal Bank of Scotland. It has been struggling to sell off its branches south of the border – a key part of the conditions placed upon the rescue deal which stopped it going bust. The government’s now proposing a new £750m plan for RBS…
Food prices are rising and new figures show retail sales unexpectedly dropped last month, for the first time since the end of 2013. In the midst of these economic pressures, with Brexit uncertainty still lurking in the background, the supermarket chain Morrisons has declared a new Buy British campaign, touring the country in search of…
Workers at Tata Steel have agreed a deal which means their pensions benefits will be slashed in order to save thousands of jobs.