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Budget 2024: key points at a glance

Rachel Reeves is announcing her financial update – here are the main points, with political analysis

The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2024

Will Tube strikes be called off? TfL issues passenger alert as week of walkout misery looms

Industrial action due to affect passengers from Sunday, but talks continue into “11th hour” to avert chaos on London Underground

Evening Standard · Oct 30, 2024

‘You can’t shoot climate change’: Richard Seymour on how far right exploits environmental crisis

In his latest book, Disaster Nationalism, the Marxist thinker explores how extremist movements around the world seek to blame fictional enemies for real disasters

The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2024

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Budget 2024: Chancellor Rachel Reeves gambles billions on RED with tax and borrowing rises to rebuild Britain

She has defended the drastic action so the Government can ‘invest, invest, invest’ in the UK

Evening Standard · Oct 30, 2024

Cherry joins team seeking to overturn winter fuel payment cut in court

The case was brought against the Scottish and UK governments by Coatbridge pensioners Florence and Peter Fanning.

Evening Standard · Oct 30, 2024

Joanna Cherry to act for Scottish couple in Winter Fuel Payment legal challenge

FORMER SNP MP Joanna Cherry has been appointed as senior counsel in a Scottish couple’s legal challenge against cuts to the Winter Fuel Payment...

The National (Scotland) · Oct 30, 2024

Reeves will use tax rises and increased borrowing to ‘invest, invest, invest’

Rachel Reeves is the UK’s first female chancellor and she will deliver a Labour budget for the first time since Alistair Darling in March 2010.

The Independent UK · Oct 30, 2024

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Autumn budget: Rachel Reeves raises taxes by £40bn and increases spending on NHS and schools – as it happened

Chancellor announces changes to employers’ national insurance contributions, inheritance tax, capital gains tax and other duties

The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2024

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 · Oct 30, 2024

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 · Oct 30, 2024

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) · Oct 30, 2024

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) · Oct 30, 2024

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 · Oct 30, 2024

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 · Oct 29, 2024

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The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2024

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 National (Scotland) · Oct 29, 2024

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 ...

Evening Standard · Oct 29, 2024

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.

The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2024

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

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The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2024

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 National (Scotland) · Oct 29, 2024

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.

Evening Standard · Oct 29, 2024

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 · Oct 29, 2024

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 · Oct 29, 2024

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 · Oct 29, 2024

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 · Oct 29, 2024

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

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