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Kwasi Kwarteng vows to speed up Northern Powerhouse Rail and a host of Manchester road and rail schemes

Chancellor's promise to cut red tape could mean work starts on big infrastructure projects by next year

Manchester Evening News

Prime Minister scraps science policy body in cabinet shake-up

The number of cabinet committees has been slimmed down from 20 to just six, with the National Science and Technology Council among those abolished.

The Independent UK

The big gamble on tax cuts for the rich that could railroad the economy off the tracks

The Daily Record's Westminster Editor Torcuil Crichton analyses The scale and the brashness of the Tory tax-cutting budget is staggering and Scotland will not be protected from global forces that could be unleashed by massive Treasury borrowing.

Daily Record

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ScotRail warn of ‘significant disruption’ next month as staff set to strike over pay dispute

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) will walk out on October 10 in a dispute over pay, it has been announced.

Daily Record

Mini budget: will Kwasi Kwarteng's plan deliver growth?

The UK economy has been dogged by slow growth for a long time. Combined with even slower growth in productivity, it has meant virtually no increase in living standards for the average family over the past decade.

The Conversation

Tory backbenchers despair at ‘toxic’ mini-budget

Divisions of leadership contest return to the fore as some MPs criticise extra borrowing to pay for tax cuts

The Guardian - UK

All the ways mini-Budget hands thousands to the rich - and pennies to the poor

This is a Budget for the rich - with £1m earners getting £55,000 while £25k earners get £283. We take you through all the ways the Income Tax, National Insurance, Stamp Duty and other tax cuts help the better-off

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Social mobility tsar casts doubt over grammar school revival in England

Katharine Birbalsingh says disadvantaged pupils with few resources struggle to win places

The Guardian - UK

Banks among biggest beneficiaries of Kwarteng’s mini-budget

From scrapping the cap on bonuses to slashing red tape, the chancellor unveils a raft of policies he says will boost economic growth

The Guardian - UK

Chancellor’s economic plans will reward ‘already wealthy’, warns Rachel Reeves

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng are two “desperate gamblers chasing a losing run” with an economic plan rewarding the “already wealthy”, according to shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves. The Labour frontbencher took aim at the Prime Minister and Chancellor as she warned the Government has served up a “menu without prices”,…

Evening Standard

11 nasty details in the small print of 'Robin Hood in reverse' mini-Budget

Tax cuts for the rich, no limits on bankers bonuses and tougher benefit sanctions - funded by a £70billion Government borrowing spree. We've trawled through the documents to find all the unfortunate details in Kwasi Kwarteng's mini-Budget

Daily Mirror

Local Conservative MPs back mini-budget tax cut plans despite fierce criticism

Tory MPs from across Greater Manchester have backed the plans that hope to deliver economic growth.

Manchester Evening News

Bin strikes in Scotland called off after GMB union agrees pay deal for council workers

EXCLUSIVE: The GMB union has revealed its members gave a thumbs-up to the offer after a ballot.

Daily Record

This ‘mini-budget’ is a naked exercise in redistributing wealth upwards

Kwarteng’s borrowing spree will have ugly economic consequences, says Michael Jacobs of Sheffield University

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The Independent UK

Trussonomics: Chancellor’s budget marks sharp break in economic policy

The Prime Minister sat nodding approvingly behind Kwasi Kwarteng as the Chancellor announced a multi-billion pound package of tax cuts.

The Guardian - UK

‘Right place at the right time’: freeports model gives fillip to St Helens regeneration scheme

Parkside project conceived almost a decade ago is among hundreds poised to benefit from tax cuts and other incentives

The Independent UK

Onshore wind farm ban scrapped in mini-Budget OLD REDIRECTED

Campaigners welcome move – but condemn fossil fuel push and plan to weaken environmental protections

Daily Record

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng's big gamble could railroad the economy off the tracks

The Daily Record's Westminster Editor Torcuil Crichton analyses Kwasi Kwarteng's mini budget that helps the wealthiest in society.

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The Independent UK

Children ‘facing hungry Christmas’ after Kwarteng ‘prioritised bankers’ in mini-Budget, charities warn

Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss accused of ‘prioritising bankers’ bonuses’ over hardest-hit families

The Guardian - UK

‘Helping the rich’: mini-budget brings fear and anger to PM’s home patch

Residents in the Leeds suburb of Roundhay, where Liz Truss went to school, express their views

Evening Standard

Analysis: Chancellor’s mini-budget presents Sir Keir Starmer with dilemma as UK returns to Thatcherite free market economics

The new Chancellor buried the legacy of Boris Johnson’s big spending, higher tax agenda

Al Jazeera

UK mini-budget shakes the stock market, benefits the wealthy

The new finance minister’s tax cuts send the British pound to a 37-year low.

The Guardian - UK

If you are poor, it’s time to ask yourself: have you thought of simply being rich?

Kwasi Kwarteng’s tax-slashing mini-budget is the latest masterstroke in Liz Truss’s quest ‘to be unpopular’, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Nottingham Post

Martin Lewis 'staggered' and 'worried' by Chancellor's mini-budget

Tax cuts are 'central' to the plan

Wales Online

The cost of the 10 most expensive household appliances based on Liz Truss’ energy cap

Homeowners will have to fork out over £70 to run their fridge freezer if bills reach the prime minister’s energy cap

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