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 ...
Welsh farmers ‘threatened’ by changes to inheritance tax
Under the plans, inheritance tax will be charged at 20% on farms worth more than £1 million, although Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said that in some cases the threshold could in practice be about £3 ...
Farmer took his own life 'fearing Rachel Reeves' budget inheritance tax raid': Father-of-two's fears of family losing £2m estate was 'final straw', son claims
John Charlesworth, 78, was found dead in the barn of his 70-acre farm in Barnsley on Tuesday, 24 hours before the Budget.
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 ...
Extra cash for universities from Labour raising students' tuition fees will be 'almost entirely swallowed up' by Rachel Reeves' hike to national insurance
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) said universities would only be marginally better off due to the impact of ...
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 ...
NI rise hits workers harder than employers, says OBR
Workers will take most of the hit from the upcoming increase to employers' National Insurance (NI) contributions, the ...
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Accord wins £50M joint investment from UK to bolster local production of cancer, immunology drugs
As the U.K. works to pump fresh cash into the local biopharma scene, London’s Accord Healthcare is capitalizing on the government’s renewed willingness to chip in. | Flush with a 50 million pound ...