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Over 1,100 pubs and restaurants have closed since last autumn, with tax rises, wage increases and higher bills driving Britain's hospitality sector into its worst crisis in decades.

A number of big names on the High Street will close in the coming weeks

Keeping an eye on your pensions forecast can help you plan for retirement

Those affected have been advised that they must make a claim

What would the perfect tax rise look like, from the Treasury’s point of view? Ideally, it would raise stupendous amounts of money, without anyone actually noticing that they’d become poorer. In the Chancellor’s wildest dreams, she might even be able to argue that it wasn’t a tax rise at all.

The Government has promised not to raise the ‘headline rate’ of income tax but has left open the possibility of freezing the thresholds for paying the levy

Exclusive: Jim O’Neill warns that the chancellor will have to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT to fill the £5bn black hole left by the welfare climbdown

I tried to put together a list of all Keir Starmer’s U-turns — but there are too many

The borrowing was the highest on record for May outside the pandemic