Category: Budget 2024 (spring)

Treasury may have broken law by failing to reveal £9.5bn in budget plan, MPs told

Head of OBR says officials should have told it about spending commitments in Jeremy Hunt’s pre-election budgetUK politics live – latest updatesTreasury officials may have broken the law when they failed to alert the...

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Martin Lewis warns of online scam ‘wild west’ over fake Rachel Reeves ad

Money expert urges Ofcom be given more powers as interview with chancellor used to trick people to share bank details• UK politics live – latest updatesMartin Lewis has warned of a “wild west” of online...

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Take money from foreign aid to spend on defence, Jenrick tells Tory leadership special on GB News– UK politics live

Kemi Badenoch to follow rival’s pitch in a two-hour special in front of an audience of Tory party membersShabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, has told MPs that magistrates are getting powers to sentence offenders for...

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Jenrick and Badenoch to face off in GB News Tory leadership showdown – UK politics live

Contenders to take part in a two-hour special in front of an audience of Tory party membersShabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, has told MPs that magistrates are getting powers to sentence offenders for longer – to...

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Tory MP defends his comments that Badenoch is ‘preoccupied’ with young family – UK politics live

Christopher Chope says leadership hopeful has ‘record of wanting to spend more time with family’ rather than visit ‘far-flung constituencies’Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, has told MPs that...

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Jenrick hits back at Gove over ‘Tory boy’ jibe, saying ex-minister behind much Tory infighting – UK politics live

Leadership hopeful’s campaign team say Gove ‘and acolytes’ have been responsible for the ‘drama that has led our party to where it is’Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, has told MPs that...

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Rishi Sunak insists he did not keep green card to move back to US

Prime minister says he only held on to his US residency until 2021 because he did not get around to returning itRishi Sunak has insisted he does not want to move to the US and that he only kept his green card for years because...

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Conservatives slam ‘bonkers’ plot to topple Rishi Sunak before election

Senior Tories have rallied around the PM amid claims that some party MPs are plotting to replace him with Penny MordauntSenior Tories attempted to rally behind an increasingly beleaguered Rishi Sunak on Saturday night amid...

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‘Negative budgets’: cost of living crisis could lose the Tories dozens of seats

Research finds that in 85 Tory-held seats the number of people with negative budgets is higher than the Tory majorityRishi Sunak has been warned that scores of his most vulnerable seats risk being lost over an increasingly...

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Hunt says plan to scrap employee national insurance is ‘long-term ambition’

Chancellor’s unfunded proposal would be ‘work of many parliaments’ and depended on growth of economyJeremy Hunt has admitted his unfunded proposal to scrap employee national insurance could take more than a...

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Gordon Brown: UK has to get on war footing for economic growth

Former prime minister will tell thinktank the Treasury is in danger of retreating into ‘comfort zone’Britain needs to be put on an economic “war footing” if it is to break out of a vicious cycle of low...

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