PM’s Mexican stand-off with Jimmy Carr
David Cameron catches up on Jimmy Carr’s tax scandal and tells Gary Gibbon it’s “morally wrong”.
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“What the government isn’t saying today is something many economists agree on: a black market in services produces benefits to the economy as well as costs.”
The Co-op is riding the ethical banking wave by taking over 632 Lloyds banking group branches. But what makes a bank ethical, and what else is on offer in the UK? Channel 4 News investigates.
David Cameron catches up on Jimmy Carr’s tax scandal and tells Gary Gibbon it’s “morally wrong”.
Home Secretary Theresa May says the government is drawing up contingency plans for an influx of economic migrants from Greece and other European countries if the eurozone breaks up.
Either Rangers’ administrators Duff & Phelps have extraordinary chutzpah or they are men in the final stages of desperation writes Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson.
Gary Gibbon writes on what Lord Peter Hennessy calls “the Bermuda Triangle of political reform” – the House of Lords reform.
“This is what the government means when it talks about ‘increased staffing levels’ – that the cut is not quite as deep as first envisaged.”
“The influence of the defence sector stretches far beyond those acknowledged military specialists and can be felt up and down the aisle of Mr Cameron’s jet.”
On normal work days I share a postcode with the Prime Minister, but he’s decided to do his first UK TV interviews since the Budget in Jakarta. You can see mine on Channel 4 News tonight at 7.
As Rangers faces potential liquidation, Alex Thomson reveals the extent of transactions and payments made from offshore accounts that have so interested the taxman.
A level of taxation that was once meant for a relatively small minority of the wealthiest members of the working population could be moving towards a state where a huge chunk of the population might find themselves in its grasp in the course of a working lifetime.
“It’s such a huge shortfall that both sides have only just stopped short of accusing each other of cooking the books.”
It was a calculated political gamble. And there’s a good chance it will work – it all depends on whether Britain’s middle class voters howl in outrage at unfairness or smile in anticipation that they’ll be winners tomorrow. George Osborne will have known perfectly well that he would face fierce political attack from Labour today and he’s done it anyway, because this was his only chance.
• Top rate of tax cut to 45p from April next year • Child benefit cut-off point rises to £50K • Are personal allowances changes a ‘granny tax’? Read Gary Gibbon’s blog: 50p tax – hero to zero? 13.47: Ed Miliband compares the government to Downton Abbey, a story of the “out of touch rich”.…
Personal tax statements indicating how money will be spent and the scrapping of the 50p tax rate are expected as George Osborne promises Wednesday’s budget will be “for working people”.