Budget 2024: ‘Difficult choices’ ahead, warns health secretary – as he refuses to rule out income tax thresholds will be frozen! B
Freezing income tax thresholds while inflation rises means hundreds of thousands of people would be dragged into higher tax bands. 1:12 ‘We’re not going to fix 14 years in one budget’ The health secretary has warned of “difficult and big…
Historic UK seaside town in financial crisis after Labour-run council splurges £6.9m! B
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. Blackpool is on the financial (Image: Eric Latham) The Lancashire town drew in visitors from…
‘I’m a Labour MP – Rachel Reeves should be CUTTING taxes, not raising them’.H
Chancellor is planning tax increases in her Budget, but former Labour minister Liam Byrne says she should cut them instead Former Treasury Minister Liam Byrne (Image: Jane Haynes/BirminghamLive) Death and taxes, so they say, are the two great inevitables in life….
Keir Starmer ‘personally responsible’ if pensioners freeze to death, says Robert Jenrick.H
Robert Jenrick says Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves knew that cutting winter fuel payments for millions of retirees would lead to deaths The Prime Minister and the Chancellor are facing calls to U-turn on winter fuel cuts (Image: Getty) Prime…
MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Revive Rwanda plan NOW. It’s the only way to deter boat gangs.H
The heart sinks at the news that a baby has died in the Channel, the latest wholly innocent victim of the wicked people-smuggling industry that now flourishes on so many dangerous routes between the Middle East and Europe, between Africa…
Don’t let Labour pull the wool over your eyes! They are about to drop a bomb on your banks.H
we have heard the ever-growing rumblings of what Rachel Reeves is planning. (Image: Getty) We are just 10 days away from this new Labour government’s first budget, and the warnings signs are now beyond clear. For weeks now, we have heard…
Liz Kendall isn’t doing one thing that would get people back into the workforce.H
Liz Kendall isn’t doing one thing that would get people back into work (Image: PA) The only person I know of in jail at the moment is a double lifer, in for murder and attempted murder. And the closest I’ve been…
Rachel Reeves eyes inheritance tax raid on aristocrats and landowners! B
The Chancellor’s Budget may reform business and agricultural property relief, which create tax loopholes for the wealthy Rachel Reeves is said to want to raise an extra £35bn in taxes Credit: Phil Noble/Reuters The Chancellor is set to hit aristocrats and…
Rachel Reeves’s expected stealth tax could slash incomes for 1m and clobber pensioners! B
Chancellor could force elderly people to pay extra levies, while other earners could be dragged into higher rates Rachel Reeves could extend the freeze on income tax thresholds in her October 30 Budget (Image: AP) Pay packets for one million Britons…
‘A mess, chaos, carnage’: inside the Labour budget revolt that could define the Starmer-Reeves project.H
Uproar at Treasury demands for departmental savings was overcome last week, but insiders fear benefit cuts will be the next bump in the road s hard as it is to describe the frenzy that gripped Whitehall on Wednesday evening, as…