Bad news for Osborne as Britain is put on negative outlook
A second ratings agency has effectively lowered their assessment of Britain’s creditworthiness, just days before an important Budget.
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George Osborne will announce plans to scrap national salaries for public sector workers and pay them according to their region instead – effectively meaning a pay cut of potentially for many of them.
Chancellor George Osborne is rumoured to be preparing to cut the 50p top rate of tax in next week’s budget.
A second ratings agency has effectively lowered their assessment of Britain’s creditworthiness, just days before an important Budget.
“Our best guess now, as also pointed out by the independent House of Commons library in their recently updated report on police service strength, is that frontline officer numbers will fall by around 2,500 posts from 2010 to 2012.”
With George Osborne rumoured to be unveiling plans for an “alcohol unit price control” in the 2012 Budget, FactCheck calls time on the row in the cabinet over boozed-up Britain. How bad are we as a nation? Will imposing a minimun price on booze make a difference to binge drinking?
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Nick Clegg says he wants to introduce a “tycoon tax” to go after top earners who employ an “army of lawyers and accountants” to avoid paying tax.
As financial experts try to revive the ailing Rangers Football Club, some football fans argue that the demise of half of the ‘Old Firm’ could actually make the Scottish game healthier.
“The actual cash saving this year is nothing like £445. It’s £3.10, barely enough to buy you a pint of beer in a central London pub.”
The company is proposing to close 36 of its 54 factories with potential compulsory redundancies of almost three quarters of its workforce of 2,300 disabled workers.
After six British soldiers are presumed killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, pushing the death toll above the 400 mark, Channel 4 News asks how so many could have died in a newly-reinforced vehicle?
Business Secretary Vince Cable confirms to Channel 4 News that the Liberal Democrats are pushing for a shift in this month’s budget away from the 50p tax rate and towards a “mansion tax”.
The firm might have expected its promise to create 20,000 jobs over the next two years to be enthusiastically endorsed – or at least, to borrow from its own slogan, to be embraced with the verdict “every little helps”. But few are prepared to take what Tesco says on trust. Do these figures strip out jobs lost? Are they full-time posts? Over to the team.
A lot of pre-Budget kite-flying going on. Always a danger that you raise expectations with exercises like that and then find you can’t deliver on them. On child benefit, the Treasury seems to be looking at a number of ways of ameliorating the child benefit removal for 40 per cent tax payers. All of them look pretty expensive. The plan is to have something ready to announce in the Budget on 21 March.
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