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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government has stumbled since his party won a landslide victory, but the financial plan to be announced on Wednesday offers a possible relaunch. Source link
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Chalmers said while he received free advice to either provide much more cost-of-living relief or “slash and burn” the budget and provide less assistance, he would be looking to strike a “series of correct balances”. One area in which consumers have felt the most price pain over the past three years has been in supermarkets. […]
UK Finance Minister Rachel Reeves makes a speech during the Labour Party Conference that is held at the ACC Liverpool Convention Center in Liverpool, UK on September 23, 2024. Anadolu | Getty Images LONDON — U.K. Finance Minister Rachel Reeves will deliver the government’s hotly awaited debut budget on Wednesday, putting to bed weeks of […]
Keir Starmer refuses to rule out raising national insurance contributions Your support helps us to tell the story Read more This election is still a dead heat, according to most polls. In a fight with such wafer-thin margins, we need reporters on the ground talking to the people Trump and Harris are courting. Your support […]
The chancellor will not unveil new freeports in the Budget on Wednesday, despite a government announcement on Friday saying she would. In the flurry of pre-Budget briefings, it seems Downing Street went too far, promising the new low tax sites would boost growth and jobs. Instead of announcing five new freeports as was widely reported, […]
La ministre de la santé se dit favorable à une taxe sur les sucres La ministre de la santé, Geneviève Darrieussecq, s’est dite favorable samedi à une taxation des sucres transformés alors que le budget de la Sécurité sociale sera débattu lundi à l’Assemblée, l’exécutif espérant réaliser près de cinq milliards d’euros d’économies dans la […]
BBC Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said “working people” would not see higher taxes on their payslips following Wednesday’s Budget. During the election, Labour promised not to increase National Insurance, income tax or VAT on working people but ministers have since come under pressure to define exactly who that covers. Appearing on Sunday with Laura […]
L’Assemblée rejette la surtaxe sur les grandes entreprises L’Assemblée nationale a finalement rejeté la surtaxe exceptionnelle sur les grandes entreprises prévue par le gouvernement dans son projet de budget 2025, les députés du camp gouvernemental et du Rassemblement national votant contre l’article après que la taxe a été sensiblement renforcée par un amendement La France […]