Angela Rayner prepares unprecedented crackdown on Right to Buy! B
Deputy Prime Minister to take an axe to Margaret Thatcher era scheme, despite previously benefitting from it Angela Rayner visits a housing development site in Basingstoke Credit: IAN VOGLER/AFP Angela Rayner is set to slash Right to Buy discounts by two-thirds in an…
Angela Rayner sets up ‘council housing revolution’ as she is handed almost £1BILLION in next week’s budget.H
Angela Rayner is is expected to set up a ‘council housing revolution’ as she is handed almost £1biillion in next week’s budget. The deputy prime minister is planning to double council house building after winning a boost to fund tens of thousands…
Top Labour minister flounders as Kay Burley asks him the same question 10 times! B
Stephen Kinnock was asked a simple question about Labour’s tax promise at the election multiple times. Sky’s Kay Burley was forced to ask a senior minister 10 times this morning a simple question about Labour’s tax policy – and repeatedly received no…
Pensioners could get £434 a month by filling out form – check to see if you’re eligible! B
The new benefit with aim to support anyone over the age of 66 who fits into three categories. New benefit for pensioners with disabilities opens for applications in pilot areas (Image: Getty) A new benefit for pensioners with disabilities has been rolled out in some…
Serial returners send back £6.6bn of online purchases a year in UK, report finds! B
Industry bodies say over-ordering is eroding profitability as big sellers clamp down on practice Younger shoppers are more likely to over-order with the intention of returning a high proportion of the items. Photograph: Tang Ming Tung/Getty Shoppers with a habit of…
Starmer urged to open reparations talks at Commonwealth summit! B
Five Labour MPs call on PM and foreign secretary to address issue of reparatory justice for slavery and colonialism Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Labour MP for Clapham and Bristol Hill: ‘The UK has both a moral and legal duty to address the…
Historic UK seaside town in financial crisis after Labour-run council splurges £6.9m.H
One of Britain’s most historic seaside resorts is on the financial “edge” after Labour-run Blackpool Council’s cash reserves plunged from £7 million … to just £76,000. Labour claims victory in 2024 Blackpool South by-election The Lancashire town drew in visitors…
Rachel Reeves warned inheritance tax plans will backfire! B
Move will increase bureaucracy for bereaved families and ‘unlikely to raise additional revenues’, experts say Senior Labour figures urged Rachel Reeves to replace inheritance tax with lifetime wealth taxes Credit: ANTHONY DEVLIN/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Rachel Reeves has been warned that her planned inheritance tax…
Labour risks breaking manifesto pledge by Budget cut to farming fund! B
Senior Tories urge Chancellor not to cut £100m from Elms which encourages greener land management The Government risks breaching its manifesto promises if it cuts a flagship farming fund at the Budget, critics have claimed. The Chancellor has been warned that…
Gang made £500k from illegal tip that filled village with ‘toxic fumes’! B
Clean-up will cost £1.2m after members of illegal waste ring are jailed for a total of 11 years Lorry-loads of waste were ‘regularly’ taken to site at Long Bennington, Lincs, where it was burnt and buried Credit: Environment Agency/SWNS A gang…