Business rates must be lowered to help tackle cost of living crisis, urges Labour
Rishi Sunak must overhaul business rates levied on high street firms if he is serious about tackling the cost of living crisis, the shadow business secretary said…
Budget watchdog’s Brexit forecasts must be taken with a mountain of salt
It said average earnings would rise by 2.7pc this year. The actual figure is 3.8pc, almost 50pc more. The list goes on and on. True, it would…
Rishi Sunak branded a ‘fiscal illusionist’ as claims unravel
It also emerged that many petrol stations franchised from the biggest oil companies have failed to pass on the 5p cut in fuel duty that the Chancellor…
Over-50s dip into life savings to pay for gas bills
Over-50s have raided their pension pots to cover the cost of soaring energy bills and more expensive supermarket shops. The Office for Budget Responsibility has dramatically revised…
‘Raising the National Insurance threshold is a good move’: Telegraph readers on the Spring Statement
Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled his Spring Statement to MPs in the House of Commons on Wednesday as he set out his plans for the UK economy. Rishi…
Welcome to Sunakland, a world of tax cuts, Teletubbies and Ted Heath on Instagram
PMQs had unfolded like a contest designed to reveal which competitor dared to trample on parliamentary protocol most insouciantly. Sir Keir Starmer had scolded Boris Johnson for…
Rishi Sunak’s 1p income tax decrease will be undercut by freeze on thresholds
Mr Sunak, however, used the Spring Statement to cast himself as a tax reformer as well as tax cutter, setting out a tax plan based on three…
Rishi Sunak is all over the place
Well, all that stuff about Sunak not wanting the Spring Statement to become a mini-Budget turned out to be a total smokescreen. Threshold changes to National Insurance….
The Chancellor did what he could in the face of unprecedented challenges
Rishi Sunak opened the Conservative spring conference on Friday by noting that he was unable to solve every problem – but that he thought people respected honesty….
Welcome to Sunakland: a land of tax cuts, mad hatters and Ted Heath with an Instagram account
PMQs had unfolded like a contest designed to reveal which competitor dared to trample on parliamentary protocol most insouciantly. Sir Keir Starmer had scolded Boris Johnson for…
Spring Statement 2022 summary: key points and changes at a glance
Rishi Sunak has warned the invasion of Ukraine “presents a risk to our recovery” as he promised to provide “security for working families” with a new “Tax…
Spring statement: How Rishi Sunak can ease cost-of-living burden with his mini Budget
However, the Centre for Policy Studies, a centre-Right think tank, has suggested going further so that Mr Sunak could say that no worker earning below the national…