Osborne’s simple Granny tax alibi gets complicated
“What is clear though, is that the Office of Tax Simplification does not offer much of an alibi for the change announced on Wednesday.”
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An advertising campaign inviting tourists to “come and play” in France has backfired after it emerged the posters featured “little bit cheeky” images of South Africa and the US.
“What is clear though, is that the Office of Tax Simplification does not offer much of an alibi for the change announced on Wednesday.”
Michael Crick rounds up the runners and riders for the newly created posts of Police Commissioner.
Bashar al-Assad’s London-based father-in-law has been advising him on how to deal with the country’s uprising, according to emails reportedly exchanged between the two.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says the government is considering how to avoid the “unintended consequences” of planned changes which would see higher rate taxpayers stripped of child benefits.
Over the past few months I’ve been keeping my eye on who might be interested in standing for election as police commissioners. Here are my very latest findings.
Plans to penalise those who pay off student loans early seem likely to be ditched. But would it be wise to try and pay the government back before you need to ?
As a disused bank in Belfast is occupied in protest against the area’s housing problems, Channel 4 News asks whether an Occupy movement can bring about change – and why housing is of such concern.
In a letter rejecting the BMA’s “blanket opposition” to the new health and social care bill, senior doctors say the NHS will be in “peril” if government health reforms are derailed.
“How can you calculate the long-term returns on the Olympic facilities when you don’t know whether a newly-built stadium will turn out to be a popular sports centre or the next Millennium Dome?”
A coalition of business figures, economists and union bosses press the government to move ahead with a controversial high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham.
Social care experts have written to the government urging it to overhaul England’s “failing” social care system, which they say is leaving 800,000 elderly people “lonely, isolated and at risk”.
Sir Richard Branson and other British businessmen urge the government to “re-engage in the decision-making process” within the EU, which they say is vital to the British economy.
Mr Miliband reminded MPs of the Chancellor’s optimistic assessment at the time of the spending review in November last year. George Osborne said at the time that private sector job creation would “far outweigh” cuts in public sector employment. But have those high hopes – based on forecasts from the independent Office of Budget Responsibility, been dashed?
Ahead of the report to David Cameron on Liam Fox’s dealings with adviser Adam Werritty, the defence secretary admits his contact with his friend may have given an impression of wrongdoing.