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Tory party conference 2025: Mel Stride pledges £5,000 national insurance rebate for young homebuyers

Shadow chancellor will use his Tory conference speech to set plans to cut welfare spending, foreign aid and the Civil Service if his party wins the next election

Evening Standard

Tories to pledge £5,000 tax break for young homebuyers

The shadow chancellor will set out a slew of cuts to welfare and foreign aid

The Independent UK

Tories to set out plans to cut £47bn from government spending

Shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride will unveil proposals at the Tory party conference.

Evening Standard

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Mel Stride issues warning to Tory leadership plotters on eve of conference

The shadow chancellor has spoken to The Independent ahead of the Conservative conference in Manchester

The Independent UK

Conservatives to take UK out of European Convention of Human Rights if it wins election

The declaration was made ahead of the party’s upcoming conference in Manchester

The Independent UK

Conservatives to take UK out of ECHR if it wins election, Badenoch announces

Shadow attorney general Baron Wolfson of Tredegar KC tells Tory leader ECHR restricts Government policy but warns withdrawal is not a ‘panacea’.

Evening Standard

Budget blow for Reeves as UK’s key economic forecast slashed

Exclusive: Budget watchdog is set to downgrade a key economic performance indicator for the UK in a move that could drive tax hikes – as chancellor tries to shift blame on to Tories

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Former Tory minister Maria Caulfield defects to Reform UK

The fresh blow to Kemi Badenoch comes just a day after shadow minister Danny Kruger became the first sitting Conservative MP to join Reform.

Evening Standard

Reeves Blocks Wealth Tax Plan: Defies Labour Hopeful, Gambles with Public Finance Chaos

Chancellor Rachel Reeves blocks wealth tax, defying Labour MPs, risking £50B fiscal chaos. Can she balance the Budget without breaking promises?

International Business Times UK

Labour will ‘tax the living daylights out of your family’s future’, say Tories

Opening the Conservatives’ opposition day debate, Sir Mel insisted ‘nothing is safe from the tax man’ under Labour.

Evening Standard

Reeves accused of ‘punishing families’ with inheritance tax raid – that still ‘won’t fill Labour’s blackhole’

Former government economist Jonathan Portes told The Independent changes to inheritance tax would not raise enough to plug the UK’s multi-billion-pound fiscal shortfall

The Independent UK

Rachel Reeves looking to tighten inheritance tax rules as Chancellor scrambles to fix UK's ailing finances

The Chancellor is examining whether to harden the rules on the gifting of money and assets ahead of the Autumn Budget

Evening Standard

Tories demand Reeves ‘urgently rule out’ investment tax hikes

The Tories claim scrapping the £500 dividend allowance will drag an estimated 5.22 million more people into paying investment levies.

Evening Standard

Rachel Reeves under pressure to ‘urgently rule out’ tax hikes

The Tories argue that leaving investors ‘in limbo’ could harm the economy

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Politics latest: Cleverly returns to shadow cabinet but Jenrick could miss out on top role in Tory reshuffle

Kemi Badenoch gives shadow housing secretary job to former leadership rival

The Guardian - UK

Labour picks on kids as Farage reaches for his human punchbag

The government opens up another fight, while the Reform leader throws his sidekick to the wolves

Evening Standard

Treasury minister declines to rule out wealth tax

Darren Jones repeatedly told the Commons that any tax decisions would be set out by the Chancellor at the budget in the autumn.

Evening Standard

Ministers ‘pushed ahead too fast’ on welfare reform, says Phillipson

The Government warned there would be financial consequences to the decision not to reform personal independence payment as planned.

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Labour policies ‘obscured’ by rows over welfare and winter fuel – Lord Kinnock

The week of Sir Keir Starmer’s first anniversary in Number 10 saw the Prime Minister scrap a raft of the Government’s proposed welfare reforms.

The National (Scotland)

Rachel Reeves breaks silence on tears in the House of Commons

CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves has broken her silence on her tears in the House of Commons yesterday

Evening Standard

PM takes blame for welfare U-turn as he gives full backing to Chancellor

Speaking in his first interview since a threatened backbench revolt, Sir Keir Starmer acknowledged the past few days had been ‘tough’.

Evening Standard

Government expected to unveil welfare Bill concessions after talks with rebels

Sir Keir Starmer is understood to have agreed to water down some reforms in a move to save the Bill.

The Guardian - UK

A week off from PMQs can’t save Starmer from awkward questions over welfare bill

Ange takes the reins in Westminster, as the prime minister gets a quizzing at Nato summit

Evening Standard

'Ever-rising' council tax in London: Angela Rayner challenged on funding shake-up set to hit boroughs

The Deputy Prime Minister was grilled over looming funding cuts to boroughs such as Richmond and Kingston

Evening Standard

Conservatives fear welfare reforms will not head off ‘tax rises’ this autumn

Shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride warned that ‘tax rises are coming’ in this autumn’s budget, opposite Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner.

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