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Five key charts: what will underpin 2024 budget statement by Rachel Reeves?

Labour chancellor to deliver budget after speculation over tax rises, debt rule changes and promised end to austerity

The Guardian - UK

From capital gains to NICs: tax changes to look out for in autumn 2024 budget

Rachel Reeves will seek to close £40bn Whitehall spending gap with range of potential measures

The Guardian - UK

Why are the SNP criticised for freezing council tax?

WHEN Humza Yousaf announced the SNP’s council tax freeze in October last year, it caught his then coalition partners in the Greens by surprise.

The National (Scotland)

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Joint calls for Chancellor to end austerity and invest in Scotland ahead of UK Budget

THERE have been joint calls for Labour to end austerity measures, invest more in public finances, and tax the super-rich ahead of the Autumn…

The National (Scotland)

UK's Labour Govt Prepares To Deliver Decisive First Budget

Britain's new Labour government unveils its first budget on Wednesday, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer warning of tax rises and public spending cuts as he focuses on long-term growth.

International Business Times

Budget 2024: Chancellor will pledge to fix NHS and 'invest, invest, invest' as businesses brace for tax rises

Rachel Reeves to lay out the ‘tough decisions’ needed to restore economic stability and ‘put more pounds in people’s pockets’

Evening Standard

Reeves to promise ‘wealth and opportunity for all’ in major tax-raising budget

Having announced minimum wage boost, chancellor to say she can spare working people from tax rises

The Guardian - UK

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Pro-Palestine MP blasts Labour's refusal to call out 'unfolding genocide' in Gaza

AN INDEPENDENT MP has called on the UK Government to “halt the genocide” in Gaza in their maiden speech in the Commons ...

The National (Scotland)

Pro-Palestine independent MP urges ‘halt the genocide’ in maiden speech

Iqbal Mohamed, the MP for Dewsbury and Batley, also criticised the ‘double standards’ of some politicians.

Evening Standard

The law of averages has let everyone down in Tory leadership race

Badenoch and Jenrick appeal to worst instincts of Tory members, though few seem to care about what is clearly a temporary appointment

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Rishi Sunak’s exit: fated to be a forgotten prime minister

Editorial: The Tory leader will step down this week after making history but failing to understand the mood of the times

The Guardian - UK

Minimum wage to increase – but it still falls short of the Living Wage

THE minimum wage will rise to £12.21 an hour next year after the Chancellor confirmed a 6.7 per cent increase ahead of Wednesday’s Budget.

The National (Scotland)

Minimum wage to rise 6.7% as Chancellor plots path to ‘genuine living wage’

Wages will rise for 3.5 million workers, but the Low Pay Commission warned businesses were beginning to struggle with large increases.

Evening Standard

Watchdog moves to simplify rules on MPs’ expenses

Parliamentary watchdog Ipsa has proposed a series of changes, including a move away from ‘mechanistic rule following’.

Evening Standard

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Evening Standard

No 10 denies cover-up after Southport suspect charged with terror offence

Downing Street insisted the timing of the latest charging announcement was a matter for the Crown Prosecution Service.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Praful Nargund was supposed to beat Jeremy Corbyn, now he symbolises Labour's business challenges

When Praful Nargund stood against Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North at the July general election, I heard several confident predictions about why the moderate and business-savvy candidate favoured by Keir Starmer’s ruthlessly disciplined machine would promptly see off Jeremy Corbyn – the Old Testament prophet of doomful state socialism in…

The Guardian - UK

Mourners say goodbye to ‘political giant’ Alex Salmond at his funeral

Former SNP leader and first minister ‘restored pride in our nation’, says acting Alba head in eulogy

Evening Standard

OPINION - The public has no idea how governments spend money

I'm generally in favour of mild ignorance. A nation where the average citizen takes an obsessive interest in politics sounds exhausting best, dystopian at worst. Voters are busy people with children to shepherd and TV shows to stream. This is why they elect politicians and hope that structures are in…

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The Guardian - UK

‘Make Britain vaguely civilised again’? Sounds great – but not the way this Tory MP would do it, thanks

Neil O’Brien’s simplistic plan isn’t really about antisocial behaviour. It’s a litany of rightwing gripes aimed at human rights, says writer and broadcaster Anne Perkins

The National (Scotland)

John Swinney gives statement amid row over Nicola Sturgeon probe legal advice

FIRST Minister John Swinney has given a statement to Holyrood after the Scottish Government published legal advice relating to the independent…

The Independent UK

Hunt accused of trying to ‘blame the referee’ over OBR ‘black hole’ review

Tory former chancellor Jeremy Hunt has written to the UK’s top civil servant about an Office for Budget Responsibility review of his spending plans.

Evening Standard

Budget 2024: Commons clash on 'higher mortgage rates' from Labour's Rachel Reeves borrowing billions to invest

The Chancellor is expected in the Budget on Wednesday to ease her debt fiscal rules to borrow some £20 billion extra to fund transport and other infrastructure projects

The Independent UK

Calls for unity as Conservative leadership election draws to a close

Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick have entered the final few days of campaigning.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Nimco Ali: It has to be Kemi Badenoch for Tory leader, not lobotomised, hard-Right Robert Jenrick

I have known Kemi Badenoch for a while — I met her at an Evening Standard event in 2017 — and the picture we took at that event recently popped up on my social media memories and I took a moment to think: could I ever have imagined that seven…

The Independent UK

Reeves hints at business rates reforms but declines to rule out fuel duty hike

The Chancellor also faced calls to reverse a cut to the winter fuel payment.

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