Chancellor gave Fujitsu executive advice on gaining contracts Exclusive: Labour says emails show ‘same old informal route for Tory cronies appears to be fully open for business’ The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2024
TUC boss and retail chief call for action on wealthy tax dodgers Paul Nowak and Julian Richer say taxes of up to £36bn a year are owed by companies and individuals The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2024
UK public services will buckle under planned spending cuts, economists warn Chancellor is considering cutting billions more from public spending to pay for reductions in tax or NI The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2024
Like many of us, Jeremy Hunt has dreams that his budget won’t stretch to As the budget looms, the chancellor has very little scope to deliver the sort of measures that might make people vote Tory The Guardian - UK · Feb 24, 2024
More than 90% of London pubs forced to increase drink prices as landlords battle rising costs Landlords call on Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to slash alcohol duty in next month’s Budget Evening Standard · Feb 23, 2024
Digested week: Recession, a shabby state of affairs – and a wait after a fall A trip to A&E and more awards for actors while MPs struggled to hold an adult debate on Gaza The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2024
Jeremy Hunt handed tax boost as UK posts record monthly budget surplus Analysts say figures give chancellor slightly more leeway for tax cuts before general election The Guardian - UK · Feb 21, 2024
FTSE 100 Live 21 February: UK in record budget surplus, HSBC disappoints despite $30bn profits HSBC, BAE Systems and Rio Tinto are among the heavyweight London-listed stocks in the spotlight today. Evening Standard · Feb 21, 2024
Jeremy Hunt’s budget giveaway ‘will act as sweet filling in tax sandwich’ Thinktank says juicy cuts this year follow far bigger increases in 2023 and precede planned ‘chunky rises’ The Guardian - UK · Feb 21, 2024
What Does UK Entering Recession After Steeper-Than-Expected Fall In GDP Mean For Brits While recessions of the past, notably during the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, were protracted and severe, indications suggest that this downturn may be milder and short-lived. International Business Times UK · Feb 20, 2024
The Tory press can publish all the tax avoidance guides they like – the rich won’t flee a Labour government The scare-mongering will come to nothing. Britain’s super-wealthy know that moving abroad would be bad for business, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2024
The Tory press can publish all the tax avoidance guides they like - the rich won’t flee a Labour government The scare-mongering will come to nothing. Britain’s super-wealthy know that moving abroad would be bad for business, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2024
A PM with no credo and a paltry record, a party with no plan or direction. That’s the Tories now Sunak’s job is safe for now because no one else wants it. And don’t discount a May election yet, says Henry Hill, deputy editor of ConservativeHome The Guardian - UK · Feb 19, 2024
The Tories’ tax plans are absurd. When will Labour be brave enough to say so? Pre-election giveaways funded by yet more austerity will push the welfare state the opposition created towards ruin The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2024 Sunak is warned spending squeeze could lead to Conservative party wipeout at election As fresh party infighting erupts after two byelection losses, the right are targeting public service funding to pay for tax cuts while others urge restraint
Evening Standard · Feb 16, 2024 Don’t 'Tell Sid' to buy NatWest shares — Give us them for free City Comment: If big investors don’t fancy NatWest shares at the current price, why should we?
The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2024 Rishi Sunak warned against fresh austerity drive to finance tax cuts Unions outraged as Jeremy Hunt said to be considering cutting public spending to balance books in next month’s budget
The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2024 Britain is in a rut. Here are five ways to fix the economy From unfreezing tax thresholds to boosting social housing, solutions to the UK’s problems don’t have to trigger the return of inflation
The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2024 ‘Rishi’s recession’: Reeves seizes her moment to take the economic high ground Shadow chancellor’s No 10-style press conference given extra credence by decision to drop £28bn green pledge, Labour sources say
International Business Times · Feb 15, 2024 UK Economy Slides Into Recession Ahead Of Election Britain is in recession, official data showed Thursday, dealing another blow to embattled Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, whose Conservative party is forecast to lose a general election expected this year.
The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2024 Labour accuses Hunt of being ‘out of touch’, with voting under way in Kingswood and Wellingborough byelections – as it happened Labour aiming to win two byelections as chancellor defends Sunak’s record, saying ‘economy is turning a corner’
The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2024 Jeremy Hunt ‘considering spending cuts’ to fund pre-election tax giveaway Treasury looking at reducing projected rise in public spending from 2025, FT reports citing insiders
The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2024 Even a technical recession is a headache for Rishi Sunak Governments try to generate a feelgood factor before an election. The UK has the opposite: a feel-bad factor
Evening Standard · Feb 15, 2024 'Rishi's recession': Blow to Sunak's key election pledge as Britain slips into negative growth GDP fell by a worse than expected 0.3% in the last three months of 2023
Top News · Feb 14, 2024 UK's Hunt eyes public spending cuts to fund tax cuts The Financial Times reports that the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, is considering further reductions in public spending to finance tax cuts.