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Exclusive: Chancellor hints at rises and calls out past ‘scaremongering’ over VAT on private schools and changes to non-domsRachel Reeves has said higher taxes on the UK’s wealthy will form part of next month’s budget, as she shrugged off the “scaremon…
This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereLindsay Hoyle starts by telling MPs that speakers from the parliaments in Fiji and Ukraine are in the gallery. And he says it is four years to the day since David Amess was murdered.It’s PMQs…
Exclusive: 13 mainly northern MPs say a new system should better account for higher house prices in south-eastMore than a dozen Labour MPs have written to Rachel Reeves calling on her to scrap council tax, as the chancellor faces mounting pressure to o…
Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in governmentUK politics live – latest updatesReform UK’s deputy leader has admitted the party cannot deliver the £90bn in tax cuts promised in its manifesto,…
Minister calls Badenoch’s claims about Chinese spy trial ‘baseless smears’. This live blog is closedAt the Downing Street lobby briefing this morning the PM’s spokesperson said it was “entirely false” to suggest the government influenced the collapse o…
Thinktank says UK could raise significant funds by tackling some of the longstanding ‘inefficiency and unfairness’ in tax systemRachel Reeves must avoid “a half-baked dash for revenue” or risk damaging economic growth as the chancellor seeks to close a…
Evoke considering the plans before expected tax increases in budget, with up to 1,500 jobs potentially affectedThe debt-laden company behind William Hill is considering closing up to 200 betting shops if Rachel Reeves’s autumn budget raises taxes on th…
Chancellor hopes to raise enough funds to stop damaging speculation about breaching fiscal rulesRachel Reeves v the OBR: chancellor aims to loosen the watchdog’s gripRachel Reeves is aiming to create more “headroom” against her fiscal rules in November…
Sector is sceptical over government licensing proposals given ‘ever-rising costs’ and ‘reduced consumer spend’Plans to make it easier for pubs to open until the small hours will not offset the “toxic” combination of high costs and hard-up drinkers stay…
Departments told to manage their own cost pressures as finance ministry seeks to curb overuse of contingency fundCabinet ministers have been told they will not be able to use the Treasury reserve to fund public sector pay rises and cannot access it unl…