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OPINION - The Standard View: Inflation fall is a lifeline for Rishi Sunak – but the pain isn't over yet

After a series of bruising setbacks, the Prime Minister can finally point to some positive news: inflation is falling again. The drop, from four per cent to 3.4 per cent, not only beat City expectations but means that over the past 12 months inflation has fallen at the fastest pace…

Evening Standard · Mar 20, 2024

Ignore the rightwing moaners. We don’t have 9m shirkers – they just want better work

A wild west labour market and millions of people on NHS waiting lists are responsible for the ballooning benefits bill, not idleness

The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2024

Income tax likely to go up if national insurance scrapped, Hunt suggests

Labour says chancellor’s ambition to eventually abolish NI would cost £46bn a year, and party questions how move would be paid for

The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2024

Most Britons say poor people deserve support. So what do Sunak’s Tories do? Cut, cut, cut

Slashing benefits will push even more people into poverty. Neither Labour nor Conservative voters want it, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK · Feb 27, 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

More than 11 million Britons have less than £1,000 in savings

Resolution Foundation calls for auto-enrolment into saving schemes, as millions have no ‘rainy day’ fund

The Guardian - UK · Feb 12, 2024

London outpacing other UK cities on services exports, report says

Capital accounts for almost half of sector’s exports and action needed elsewhere, says Resolution Foundation

The Guardian - UK · Jan 23, 2024

Reported £19 Billion Surge in Mortgage Costs as Fixed-Rate Deals Near-Expiry

Around 1.5 million households are anticipated to have increased mortgage costs due to the housing crisis as the period of fixed-rate deals is ending.

International Business Times UK · Jan 8, 2024

Jeremy Hunt unsure if government can afford more tax cuts

‘I don’t yet know if I can’, says chancellor when asked about pre-election tax giveaway talked up by PM

The Independent UK · Jan 6, 2024

Rishi Sunak tax cuts won’t ease burden, economists warn, as national insurance rate drops

The Institute for Fiscal Studies says personal taxes are rising despite much-hyped Tory tax cuts

The Independent UK · Jan 5, 2024