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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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Chancellor announces 2p National Insurance tax cut
With his eye firmly on the next election, Jeremy Hunt says he is delivering “much-needed help in challenging times”.
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How has Scotland’s NHS performed under the SNP?
Over the last few weeks we have been looking at the state of health services across the UK amid soaring demand, ongoing strikes, staff shortages and tight budgets.
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‘Local government has been systematically underfunded,’ says Chair of Local Government Association
We spoke to Shaun Davies – he chairs the Local Government Association and is the Labour leader of Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire.
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Birmingham council cuts services while hiking tax to balance books
Birmingham may boast that it is Europe’s biggest local authority, but its city councillors will be voting tonight on whether to shrink services while hiking up council tax bills by more than 20 per cent in the next two years.
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Church of England told to raise £1bn slavery reparations fund
When the Church of England was found to have profited off the slave trade, it promised to invest 100 million pounds in disadvantaged black communities.
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‘Possibly one of the most farcical eras in criminal justice history’, says chief superintendent on fox hunting crime
We spoke to Chief Superintendent Matthew Longman from Devon and Cornwall Police, and is the lead on Fox Hunting Crime for the National Police Chiefs Council.
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Fox hunting group avoid court with ‘secret’ police deal
It started with a court order, but ended with an out-of-court deal.
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Clare’s Law: ‘Every opportunity lost to disclose that information can result in a fatality’, says Clare Wood’s aunt
We spoke to Carol Whicher, the aunt of Clare Wood, who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in 2009.
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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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Sunak: ‘Our democracy itself is a target’
In a pertinent illustration of how events here in the Middle East spill into other parts of the world, George Galloway, leader of the Workers Party of Britain focused his Rochdale by-election campaign on the Israel-Gaza war.
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Alexei Navalny funeral: Anti-Putin chanting as thousands of supporters turn out
Iran counts Russia as a key ally. Iranian drone technology has helped Russia in its war in Ukraine. Both regimes have faced opposition on their streets – and have put them down brutally at times.
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Conversations on women’s safety are ‘like groundhog day’, says Yvette Cooper
The Met Police Commissioner described the inquiry’s findings about Wayne Couzens as “an urgent call to action for all of us in policing”. We sat down with the shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper and asked her if she has confidence he will make the required changes.
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Iran election – will young Iranians take part in crucial vote?
In Iran, the regime’s popularity will be put to the test tomorrow in the first election since the mass protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody. It’s been imploring people to come out and make their voices heard by voting – amid concerns of a record low turnout. But the mass…
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How Hamas funds its $1 billion war chest
Iran is thought to support Hamas financially to the tune of 100 million dollars a year. But most of the one billion dollar war chest the group is thought to have accumulated, comes from investments. From tower blocks in Turkey to copper mines in Sudan, Hamas’ financial network spreads far and wide, carefully constructed to…