Gary Gibbon
Budget 2014
This is a fiscally neutral budget of slight readjustments, rather than a major economic moment.
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Wooing Scotland: what are the pro-union parties offering?
The Conservatives are offering the Scottish parliament the power to set income tax if Scots vote to the stay in the union. What are the other main parties putting on the table?
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A wodhesta kewsel Kernewek? Cornish get minority rights
More than just pasties: there has been a Cornish king, a flag, and a language. No wonder Cornish people have just won “minority rights” in the UK.
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Will falling UK inflation mean a boost to our pay?
Inflation has fallen to its lowest level in more than four years – good for households who have seen their pay eroded by rising prices, but the better news is the squeeze on earnings may be over.
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Gary Gibbon
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Budget 2014: for ‘makers, doers and savers’
Chancellor George Osborne announces a budget for savers after years of low interest rates, with a boost to tax-free ISAs, new pensioner bonds and changes to pensions.
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Osborne: austerity is working – but repair ‘far from over’
The chancellor says he is scrapping employers’ national insurance contribution for under 21s from April 2015 and insists his austerity measures are working, but says the hard work is not over yet.
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Malnutrition a public health emergency, experts warn
Malnutrition is something most of us associate with the third world or even the world of Dickens. But new figures show hospital admissions in England have nearly doubled in the last five years.
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Faisal Islam
Energy bills are heading for an all time record
Ed Miliband’s cunning and unconventional gambit is offering a seeming solution to the public, and the Coalition is debating its response.
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Moore out, McVey in, as Cameron reshuffles government
Out with the old, in with the new? The Liberal Democrat Michael Moore is sacked as Scottish secretary in the autumn reshuffle, while the Conservatives Nicky Morgan and Esther McVey are promoted.
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David Cameron pledges ‘land of opportunity for all’
David Cameron tells the Conservative conference he wants to create a society built on hard work, tax cuts and enterprise, in which everyone has “the chance to make it”.
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David Cameron: Labour is anti-enterprise
David Cameron attacks Labour leader Ed Miliband as anti-enterprise, as he delivers his speech to the Conservative Party conference – saying the Tories will deliver a “land of opportunity”.
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Jeremy Hunt vows Tories will give CQC ‘teeth’
Jeremy Hunt announces the Conservatives will give the Care Quality Commission “teeth” to investigate any hospital or trust, without needing state permission, in the wake of the Mid Staffs scandal.
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Gary Gibbon
Tory conference: eye-popping Osborne
George Osborne is trying to set out some new fiscal rules which he hopes Labour will struggle to match.
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Petrol ‘price-fixing’: inspectors raid BP and Shell offices
BP and Shell offices are raided by inspectors after allegations of collusion over price-fixing, which regulators say may have pushed up the price of petrol over the last ten years.
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Gary Gibbon
Budget 2013: gloom, sweeties and beer
The government’s borrowing about £56bn more than it thought it would as recently as December’s Autumn statement.
