UK asylum backlog lower since Rwanda plan scrapped, figures show_P
Refugee Council says nearly 120,000 people await case processing with 63,000 set to be granted asylum by Labour government Demonstrators hold placards in a protest near 10 Downing Street, May 2024. The new Labour government scrapped the Conservatives’ plans to…
Second home owners could be safe from Reeves tax raid! B
Chancellor will instead raise the rate levied on the sale of shares, it was reported Rachel Reeves is preparing to launch the biggest Budget tax raid in history Credit: EPA Rachel Reeves is set to spare second home owners from a…
Reeves’s Budget to be biggest tax raiser in history! B
Chancellor may look to raise fuel duty and faces backlash from Cabinet colleagues Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, is seeking to fill a gap in the public finances estimated at £40 billion Credit: Phil Noble/REUTERS Rachel Reeves is poised to launch the…
‘My NHS hip replacement poisoned me – now thousands of others are at risk, too’! B
NHS urged to contact patients with ‘modular neck’ implants who are unknowingly at increased risk of cobalt poisoning Tracey O’Neill, 56, was a long-distance runner and fitness instructor before poisoning from her hip replacement left her in constant agony Credit: heathcliffe…
Reeves accused of hypocrisy after admitting NI raid would hit workers’ pay! B
Chancellor previously criticised Rishi Sunak for the same policy in 2022, calling it ‘the worst possible tax rise’ Rachel Reeves has repeatedly promised not to increase taxes on working people Credit: Kirsty O’Connor/Treasury Rachel Reeves has been accused of hypocrisy after…
Labour’s ‘nepo babies’ exposed as sons and daughters of senior party figures become MPs! B
Shadow Cabinet Office minister Oliver Dowden spoke in opposition to the planned abolition of hereditary peers – pointing out Labour’s glaring hypocrisy. Top Tory Oliver Dowden has called out the glaring hypocrisy at the heart of Labour’s plans to remove hereditary peers from the…
Keir Starmer gaslights Britain over NHS by blaming everything on us Tories! B
The Prime Minister’s attacks should be taken with a pinch of salt. Lincoln Jopp, MP for Spelthorne (Image: House of Commons) Journalists call it a ‘marmalade dropper’, a story so stunning it would make gape-mouthed readers ditch their morning toast. “The…
Inflation crashes! Now BoE has no excuse and MUST slash interest rates to the bone! B
Excuse me, but am I missing something? I thought the Bank of England was tasked with getting consumer price inflation back down to 2%. The Bank of England has been too cautious about cutting rates and should speed things up…
State pension 4.1% boost ‘entirely cancelled’ for millions of pensioners! B
State pensioners are on course for another inflation-beating pay rise next April. State pensioners are set for a 4.1 percent pay rise but many will effectively get nothing extra (Image: Getty) State pensioners on track for a 4.1% boost next April…
UK landlords rush to sell amid fears of capital gains tax rise in budget_P
Rightmove says record 18% of homes for sale in September had previously been rented out A succession of tax changes have made owning buy-to-let properties less lucrative, and the fear of a CGT rise may have persuaded landlords to sell…