Atkins: ‘Crass’ move on farm inheritance tax makes UK more reliant on imports
Victoria Atkins said the move had ‘consigned family farms and businesses to being sold off and split up as families cannot ...
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 ...
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.
UK's ultra-rich feel the pinch from Labour's tax-raising budget
Britain’s wealthy are feeling the pinch following a slew of targeted tax hikes in the Labour government’s budget, with many ...
James Dyson condemns Rachel Reeves’s Budget ‘tractor tax’ as ‘spiteful’
The businessman said the decision to tighten inheritance tax relief on business property is an ‘ignorant swipe at aspiration’ ...
Reeves Says She Was Wrong About UK Tax Needs Before Election
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves said she was wrong to tell British voters before the election that Labour wouldn’t ...
Financial market worries over the UK budget appear to ease
Worries about this week’s tax-raising U.K. budget within financial markets appear to have eased with the interest rates ...
Big, bold and risky, but Rachel Reeves has still presented a continuity budget
It continues the broad approach put in place by previous chancellor Jeremy Hunt when he reversed the disastrous so-called ...