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FactCheck: Rachel Reeves’ claim that ‘the average family will be £870 worse off’
FactCheck takes a look.
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Sunak pledges to scrap National Insurance entirely
Yesterday they cut national insurance by another two pence. Today, the Prime Minister and his Chancellor want to scrap it altogether. How they would pay for it isn’t clear. Labour says the pledge is “more reckless than Liz Truss”. Meanwhile, after studying the Budget, the Institute for Fiscal Studies says most people will be worse…
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The Political Fourcast: Did Tory budget steal Labour policies – and May election rumblings
Will we have a May General election? Will there be massive Conservative defeat in any Election that we do have this year? And what’s the economy got to do with it?
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Government won’t be able to provide free childcare ‘on the cheap’, says nurseries lobby group
The Chancellor also promised to make good on an announcement from last year’s budget: more free early years childcare.
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Overall government tax policies since pandemic are ‘raising the tax burden’, says OBR Chairman
Richard Hughes is Chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility, which assesses the health of the UK’s economy and whose forecasts determine how much the Chancellor has to spend in the Budget.
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Post Office boss Nick Read under fire over pay claims
While being interviewed this morning, the Chancellor declined to express confidence in the Post Office Chief Executive Nick Read.
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Exclusive: Survey of UK voters reveals three quarters would back keeping taxes the same or seeing them rise
Exclusive new opinion polling from Channel 4 News and DeltaPoll reveals three quarters of voters would back keeping taxes the same or seeing them rise, if it means safeguarding public services.
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UK economy: what does technical recession mean for Sunak?
Rishi Sunak pledged to kickstart growth. Instead, the UK fell into recession late last year.
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Labour U-turn: Keir Starmer ditches £28 billion green policy
This week Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer denied he was scaling back the £28bn a year pledge he said was desperately needed, not least to get the economy growing again.
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Rachel Reeves says Labour will govern as ‘pro-business party’
No hike in corporation tax, unlimited bonuses for bankers and stability for businesses – Labour have burnished their charm offensive towards business leaders at a one day summit, kicked off by shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves.
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Is Labour watering down flagship £28bn green investment plan?
It’s time for the UK to embrace its bankers: that seems to be the idea behind Labour’s new plan for financial services.
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IMF warns UK not to make further tax cuts
The International Monetary Fund has warned the UK not to make further tax cuts – describing the Treasury’s spending plans for this year as unrealistic. The IMF has advised the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to prioritise vital services like the NHS and education instead of tax giveaways.
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Could child benefit be extended to give support to middle income families?
The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is considering whether to extend child benefit to hundreds of thousands more families in his spring budget – to give direct support to middle income families.
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FactCheck: what is the UK’s new inflation rate, why has it risen and how is it calculated?
Inflation has risen unexpectedly for the first time in almost a year. FactCheck takes a look.
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Sunak hints at further tax cuts
Rishi Sunak has denied having significant doubts when he was Chancellor about the government’s policy to send migrants to Rwanda.
