Category: Austerity

Budget 2024: Hunt gambles with highest tax burden since second world war

Chancellor’s £10bn national insurance cut funded by ‘non-dom’ tax breaks is final major economic intervention before electionPolitics live: latest news and reaction on UK budgetBudget: key points at a...

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Budget 2024: Jeremy Hunt announces 2p cut in national insurance

Chancellor’s expected pre-election gambit follows identical reduction in autumn statementJeremy Hunt has announced a 2p national insurance cut in his budget as a pre-election gambit to revive flatlining opinion poll...

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Cuts to public services in England will ‘reverse’ gender equality, unions warn

Women’s groups urge chancellor to ignore calls for tax cuts in next week’s spring budgetFurther cuts to public services in England will put gender equality “into reverse”, according to women’s...

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Children’s services leaders in England call for national ‘plan for childhood’

Failure to tackle post-pandemic needs was ‘massive missed opportunity’, say council directorsExplained: the devestating impact of Covid and austerity on children in EnglandChildren’s services leaders have...

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Frailty in older people rose sharply during austerity years, study reveals

Cuts to health spending brought in by Cameron government associated with steeper declines in wellbeing than in previous decadeAusterity cuts to the NHS, public health and social care in England have been linked with a sharp...

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