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UK’s Labour just unveiled its first budget in 14 years – what is in it and will it work?

Chancellor’s solutions to improving economy and public services will be a radical change for country

The Guardian - UK

Will Rachel Reeves’s borrow-and-spend Budget actually work?

ANALYSIS: Business will bear the burden of this Budget, so the chancellor must hope it delivers a better economy, says Howard Mustoe

The Independent UK

Migrant Dies Trying To Cross Channel, Three More Bodies Found

A migrant died Wednesday trying to cross the Channel to Britain, French authorities said, while the date of death was not immediately clear for three more people found dead on beaches.

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Stamp duty blow to first-time buyers and second home investors

Experts said Britain’s property sector would be knocked by stamp duty changes, with an ‘overnight’ hike for second-home buyers.

The Independent UK

Is this the budget Britain needs? Our panel responds

In Labour’s first budget for almost 15 years, Rachel Reeves has unveiled tax rises and promises of investment in public services

The Guardian - UK

It’s my first Halloween in the UK for two decades – and my American children are not impressed

Spending on costumes and treats has increased, but Britain isn’t showing quite the same commitment or creativity, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

The Guardian - UK

No, Robert Jenrick, former colonies do not owe a ‘debt of gratitude’ for Britain’s legacy of brutality and exploitation

As a historian, the UK conservative party leadership candidate should know that the only debt owed is one of accountability and reparation

The Guardian - UK

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Push for black and Asian soldiers’ input in world wars to be taught in UK schools

Exclusive: Awareness of contribution of black and Asian soldiers could help tackle racism, say leading minority ethnic voices

The Guardian - UK

Live: Rachel Reeves delivers tax-raising Budget

In the first Labour Budget since 2010 – and the first delivered by a woman – Ms Reeves promised to ‘invest, invest, invest’.

The Independent UK

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

More spending and tax hikes expected in the first budget from Britain's Labour government

British Treasury chief Rachel Reeves is set to deliver her first budget in Parliament

The Independent UK

Britain has closed its eyes to long Covid – which means it will ravage even more lives and livelihoods

Unlike the US, Canada and Australia, the UK is only giving free boosters to some. But the cost of restricting them could be huge, says Devi Sridhar of Edinburgh University

The Guardian - UK

Botswana’s stability tested in tough election for President Masisi

Botswana goes to the polls this Wednesday with incumbent President Mokgweetsi Masisi facing three main challengers in what analysts are calling the country’s most competitive vote yet. The prosperous, diamond-rich nation has maintained a stable democracy since gaining independence from Britain in 1966.

Radio France Internationale

Here’s what Keir Starmer gets wrong about reparations: we’ve made them before, but now we have to do it right

The call for justice is not going away. Rather than ignore it, Labour should be entering the conversation – and shaping it, says academic Kojo Koram

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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.

The Independent UK

‘Britain’s brass bands older than thought and invented Napoleonic War soldiers’

The findings challenge the held belief that brass bands originated with coal miners and other industrial communities between the 1830s and 1850s.

The Independent UK

Study reveals Britain’s first brass bands helped win wars

It was originally thought brass bands were inevented with coal miners

Evening Standard

Britain’s brass bands ‘older than thought’ and could date to Napoleonic War

The findings challenge the held belief that brass bands originated with coal miners and other industrial communities between the 1830s and 1850s.

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Evening Standard

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’

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

March for Clean Water: Thousands expected to take part in London river pollution protest this weekend

Chris Packham, Bear Grylls, Carol Vorderman and Johnny Flynn are among those backing the march, along with 130 organisations

The Guardian - UK

Should Britain pay for the horror of slavery?

Letters: Readers respond to Keir Starmer saying Britain will not participate in any slavery reparations

The Independent UK

Voices: I see being child-free as offsetting my carbon emissions

COMMENT: By not starting a family, I always believed I was doing my bit to save the planet, says Gina Beach – but as the birth rate in Britain plummets to a record low, am I contributing to an even more pressing problem?

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 Independent UK

Pay for 800,000 freelancers could be hit if employers’ tax rises in Budget, experts say

Chancellor is understood to be considering the move as part of her plans to raise money to bail out Britain’s battered public services

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