Atkins: ‘Crass’ move on farm inheritance tax makes UK more reliant on imports
Under plans announced in the Budget, inheritance tax will be charged at 20% on agricultural assets above £1 million, although ...
Primark boss slams Rachel Reeves’ Budget after it added ‘tens of millions’ to staffing costs
THE boss of Primark blasted Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget yesterday — claiming it had added “tens of millions” to staffing ...
One more shock would vaporise Rachel Reeves’s grand plans
Last week’s Budget appears to have achieved the extraordinary feat of being both radical and humdrum. The numbers were so huge they’d need to be housed in an aircraft hangar; the new ideas and fresh ...
I thought Rachel Reeves was wrecking UK - then realised what Bridget Phillipson's up to
They’re anti aspiration, anti ambition and anti hope. She holds the same dangerous politics of envy which stoked Rachel ...
Keir Starmer has 'blood on his hands', says son of father-of-two farmer who 'took his own life fearing he'd lose £2m estate in budget inheritance tax raid'
John Charlesworth, 78, was found dead the day before Rachel Reeves broke an election pledge to announce the tax would apply ...
Inheritance tax raid ‘will hit 140,000 family businesses’
Rachel Reeves’ inheritance tax raid on businesses will hit as many as 140,000 family firms. The Chancellor used the Budget to ...
Forty thousand more appointments per week and ‘surgical hubs’, but will this fix the NHS?
NHS England conducted about 2 million outpatient appointments per week in 2023-24, meaning that 40,000 more appointments per ...
‘Reeves will steal my life’s work as a farmer’
The UK’s farming community is reeling after Labour announced that farmers will lose their inheritance tax (IHT) exemption.
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Surprise fuel duty freeze fails to dampen driver discontent with Autumn Budget
Despite months of speculation from pundits, many pointing to the possibility of as much as an extra 7p on a litre of petrol, the feared rise didn’t happen. So why does our post-budget polling suggest ...
Lanarkshire MSP slams Chancellor's “family farm tax” announced in the Budget
Central Scotland Conservative MSP Meghan Gallacher says the changes announced by Chancellor Rachel Reeves to agricultural ...
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Streeting vows Budget will put NHS staff ‘on front line, not the picket line’
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has pledged that winter 2024 will be the first “in three years where NHS staff are on the front line, not the picket line”. Mr Streeting also vowed Labour would rebuild ...
Stormont draft budget to be announced in December, says finance minister
Stormont’s draft budget is set to be announced next month, the finance minister has indicated. Caoimhe Archibald said following last week’s Budget announcement by Chancellor Rachel Reeves, it is her ...