One more shock would vaporise Rachel Reeves’s grand plans
Last week’s Budget appears to have achieved the extraordinary feat of being both radical and humdrum. The numbers were so huge they’d need to be housed in an aircraft hangar; the new ideas and fresh ...
Inheritance tax raid ‘will hit 140,000 family businesses’
Rachel Reeves’ inheritance tax raid on businesses will hit as many as 140,000 family firms. The Chancellor used the Budget to ...
Forty thousand more appointments per week and ‘surgical hubs’, but will this fix the NHS?
NHS England conducted about 2 million outpatient appointments per week in 2023-24, meaning that 40,000 more appointments per ...
‘Reeves will steal my life’s work as a farmer’
The UK’s farming community is reeling after Labour announced that farmers will lose their inheritance tax (IHT) exemption.
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Surprise fuel duty freeze fails to dampen driver discontent with Autumn Budget
Despite months of speculation from pundits, many pointing to the possibility of as much as an extra 7p on a litre of petrol, the feared rise didn’t happen. So why does our post-budget polling suggest ...
Welsh farmers ‘threatened’ by changes to inheritance tax
Eluned Morgan, the Welsh First Minister, has defended the UK government’s budget during FMQs ... although Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said that in some cases the threshold could in practice be about ...
Farmer took his own life 'fearing Rachel Reeves' budget inheritance tax raid': Father-of-two's fears of family losing £2m estate was 'final straw', son claims
John Charlesworth, 78, was found dead in the barn of his 70-acre farm in Barnsley on Tuesday, 24 hours before the Budget.
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OBR watchdog warns costs of government projects could SOAR after Rachel Reeves' tore up fiscal rules to rush through extraordinary spending splurge
The bill for government projects could soar after Rachel Reeves tore up fiscal rules to rush through a ... 6 per cent in 2025 'partly due to the direct and indirect impact of the Budget'. That is ...
UK's ultra-rich feel the pinch from Labour's tax-raising budget
Britain’s wealthy are feeling the pinch following a slew of targeted tax hikes in the Labour government’s budget, with many ...
James Dyson condemns Rachel Reeves’s Budget ‘tractor tax’ as ‘spiteful’
The businessman said the decision to tighten inheritance tax relief on business property is an ‘ignorant swipe at aspiration’ ...
Reeves Says She Was Wrong About UK Tax Needs Before Election
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves said she was wrong to tell British voters before the election that Labour wouldn’t ...
Financial market worries over the UK budget appear to ease
Worries about this week’s tax-raising U.K. budget within financial markets appear to have eased with the interest rates ...