School smartphone ban will not become law after MP drops proposal, Sky News understands
Plans to ban smartphones in schools have been dropped after the government refused to support a change in the law,...
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Budget: Hostile market response as chancellor suffers Halloween nightmare
First things first: don't panic.What you need to know is this. The budget has not gone down well in financial...
Health workers react to law change to protect abortion clinics
At a health centre in Brixton it seemed like any other day, but a change in the law has changed...
Most farmers unaffected by budget tax changes, IFS says, despite fears children could be robbed of legacy
Halloween isn't the only thing giving UK farmers a scare this week.Many say the first Labour budget for over a...
Pound falls sharply and government gilt interest rates up after major budget tax rises
The pound has fallen sharply after the chancellor announced the biggest tax rises in a generation.Over the last three days,...
Food prices could rise due to Rachel Reeves’s farm inheritance tax change in budget, farmers warn
Rachel Reeves' changes to agricultural inheritance tax could lead to food price rises and will have a "catastrophic" impact on...
Is the farmers’ inheritance tax the new pasty tax?
👉 Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app 👈Is this the budget we were promised by...
GB News fined £100,000 by Ofcom over Rishi Sunak programme
GB News has been fined £100,000 for breaking impartiality rules over a programme featuring Rishi Sunak, Ofcom has said.The regulator...
Budget 2024 calculator: See if you are better or worse off after Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s statement
Are you richer or poorer?Use our budget calculator to see how you have been affected by Labour's first budget in...
Budget 2024: The main announcements in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s speech
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has finally unveiled the budget for 2024. Here are the key points:Follow live budget updates • The...
Budget: Feeling blindsided? Chancellor’s hefty tax and spending plans are a huge gamble
One hundred and eighteen days into the Labour government, and finally we get to see what the slogan on the...
Budget: Chancellor says it would be ‘irresponsible’ to rule out further tax rises
The chancellor cannot rule out more tax rises in the next five years, despite raising the burden to its highest...
Reeves promised to be the iron chancellor – but her first budget brings dramatic change
The 2024 Autumn Budget in one word? Big.What we got from Rachel Reeves today was, in economic terms, a major...
Budget contained ‘broken promise after broken promise’, Conservative leader Rishi Sunak claims in response to chancellor’s statement
Rachel Reeves was accused of "broken promise after broken promise" by Rishi Sunak after delivering Labour's first budget since 2010.Mr...
Budget 2024: Green campaigners describe chancellor’s fuel duty freeze as ‘utterly nonsensical’
Fuel duty will remain frozen for another year as increasing the tax "would be the wrong choice for working people,"...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves promised short-term pain for long-term gain – and we look set for a bumpy ride
The chancellor has finished a statement she's waited a long 16 weeks to deliver - which she claims will start...
Budget 2024: Biggest day-to-day increase in NHS spending since 2010 announced
Rachel Reeves has announced a £22.6bn increase in day-to-day spending on the NHS in her budget as she promised to...
Budget 2024: Biggest tax rise since 1993 – with employers to bear the brunt
Taxes will increase by £40bn - and the lion's share will come from a £25bn rise in employers' national insurance...
Whole Tory cabinet knew Rwanda Bill wouldn’t work, Robert Jenrick claims
'Everyone in cabinet' knew the Rwanda deportation bill would not work, according to Conservative leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick.Speaking to the...
Rachel Reeves to deliver ‘fixing the foundations and change’ budget – but it’ll be a difficult sell
The Labour manifesto never did add up.On the one hand, Keir Starmer vowed there would be "no return to austerity"...