Category: Budget 2024 (spring)

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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Sunak warned unfunded axing of national insurance would harm services

Economists say making the policy an election pledge could cost £40bn, which is badly needed for health, education and elsewhereRishi Sunak has been warned against fighting an election on an unfunded plan to abolish...

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Sunak refuses to say how abolition of national insurance would be funded – UK politics live

PM says ‘people trust me on these things’ and refuses to be drawn on whether government would forgo entire £46bn raised from measureKeir Starmer has accused Jeremy Hunt of repeating the budget mistakes made by...

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Hunt ‘repeating Truss’s errors with £46bn unfunded tax proposal’ to scrap national insurance, says Starmer – UK politics live

Labour leader claims Tories ‘have learned nothing’ from former PM’s mini-budgetKeir Starmer has accused Jeremy Hunt of repeating the budget mistakes made by Liz Truss during her disastrous premiership.In...

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Hunt says presenter’s comments ‘unworthy of BBC’ after he suggested budget not enough to revive ‘stagnant’ economy – UK politics live

Chancellor criticises BBC presenter after he said British economy was ‘ravaged by economic shocks’ and ‘stagnant’More in Common UK, a group campaigning to reduce political divisions, which carries out a...

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