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Richest 5% of UK to benefit most from mini-budget
The government has defended it’s sweeping tax cuts, denying Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget would mostly benefit the rich. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer – in Liverpool for the upcoming Labour Party conference – has accused the government of ‘casino economics’ and gambling with the finances of the country.
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Value of the pound slumps as markets react to mini-budget
The financial markets have given a very negative reaction to the Chancellor’s speech.
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Government could deliver ‘mini-Budget’ as soon as next week
Whitehall sources have signalled that the new Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng will deliver what’s being described as a “mini-Budget” next week.
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Former PM Gordon Brown demands emergency budget before ‘financial timebomb’
The battle for leadership of the Conservative Party and residency of Number Ten soldiers on.
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Cost of living crisis: Budget pasta price jumps 50 per cent
The cost of living is hitting supermarket basics.
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Nothing in budget for universal credit claimants and pensioners, says IFS director
We’re joined by Paul Johnson, the Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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Budget 2021: What chancellor’s budget looks like at sharp end
How has the chancellor’s budget gone down with people dealing with all the economic pressure and uncertainty of these times?
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Budget 2021: Lib Dems accuse chancellor of giving more tax cuts to bankers
The Lib Dems and the Scottish National Party have also been giving their reaction to the budget.
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Budget set out ‘more on booze than climate change’, says Labour’s Bridget Phillipson
We spoke to the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Bridget Phillipson.
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Budget 2021: Is this the end of austerity?
What are the details of what Rishi Sunak has promised, and what does it say about the future of the UK economy?
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Budget 2021: Sunak unleashes spending spree partly funded by higher taxes
The chancellor hailed what he called the “age of optimism”, seizing his chance to raid a public purse less battered by the pandemic than expected
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Commons Speaker rebukes government over Budget briefings
The Speaker has rebuked the Government for releasing more details of tomorrow’s Budget to the media early.
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£6.9bn to be unveiled for public transport in next week’s Budget
English regions will be given a total of almost seven billion pounds to improve urban transport, to be unveiled in next week’s Budget.
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£9bn estimated shortfall in social care budget even with national insurance hike, says economist
Can the government’s plan really solve the crisis in the care system and give the health service the money it needs?
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Crime and policing minister defends austerity cuts to police budgets
We spoke to the Crime and Policing Minister, Kit Malthouse, and began by asking whether the colourful language used to describe the new initiative evoked images of the racially-segregated Deep South.