Category: Resolution Foundation

Starmer insists pro-growth policies on way after OBR’s budget warnings – UK politics live

PM says budget just ‘first step’ after watchdog said measures would make no difference to growth over five yearsRachel Reeves is now being interview on ITV’s Good Morning Britain.She is being interviewed by Ed...

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Reeves’s long-term spending figures almost as unrealistic as Tories’ were, IFS says – UK politics live

Institute for Fiscal Studies says budget ‘looks like the same silly games’ as seen under the ConservativesRachel Reeves is now being interview on ITV’s Good Morning Britain.She is being interviewed by Ed Balls,...

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Labour MPs urge Reeves to spend tens of billions more on ailing public services

About 70 colleagues have written to chancellor ahead of budget pleading for her to commit to rewriting fiscal rules• How Labour promises have left Rachel Reeves with a giant budget headache Scores of Labour MPs are pleading...

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Reeves urged to make tax changes ‘to raise more than £20bn a year’

Resolution Foundation suggests proposals on capital gains tax, inheritance tax and national insurance Rachel Reeves is being urged by a left-of-centre thinktank to announce changes to capital gains tax, inheritance tax and...

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Warning over rise in children on disability benefits in England and Wales

Resolution Foundation points to growth in claims for conditions such as autism and says adulthood brings financial cliff edgeChildren in England and Wales aged 15 or 16 are now more likely to be receiving disability benefits...

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Two-child benefit cap is cementing regional poverty, Starmer told

North-west and West Midlands worst hit, says thinktank, and in some areas half of children live below breadlineKeir Starmer has been warned that the two-child benefit cap has contributed to a widening gulf in regional poverty,...

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Wealth taxes could raise £10bn to help plug Tory budget hole, say economists

Reforms to inheritance and capital gains taxes could reduce £20bn shortfall and combat UK’s widening wealth gapRachel Reeves could quickly find around £10bn a year to plug half of the fiscal hole left by the...

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Labour told it will need to defeat ‘net-zero nimbys’ to decarbonise Britain

Opposition in wealthier areas is likely and overcoming it is essential, says Resolution Foundation The government will need to “take on net-zero nimbys” and ramp up public investment to decarbonise Britain’s...

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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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