4 hours ago ANDREW NEIL: Starmer said whatever he thought would get him elected and is now reneging on it: prepare for the biggest tax raid in history

Only three brief months since the 2024 General Election and already we can safely consign pretty much everything Labour had to say about tax during the campaign to the dustbin of history.

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4 hours ago Only the brightest minds in the country can solve this 'fiendishly' difficult brainteaser

Created by the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) you'll have to be as smart as a spy to be able to crack this 'fiendishly' challenging brainteaser without caving in

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5 hours ago Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves is warned her inheritance tax hike will decimate middle class savings and leave 'people who have saved all their life' without an inheritance to pass to their children

As the backlash against her budget grows, Senior Conservatives have said the move would force those who had saved all their lives to 'pay the price'.

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6 hours ago Labour plots a tax raid on your holidays with stealth levy on air fares set to be announced in upcoming Budget cash grab

Millions of families are bracing themselves for above-inflation hikes in Air Passenger Duty - a stealth levy on air fares known as the 'holiday tax' - as part of Rachel Reeves' Budget cash grab.

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6 hours ago Chancellor must not 'punish' military families with Labour's tax raid on private schools 'at a time of such global instability', Tory peer urges

Ten days before the Budget, Lord Kempsell has written to Rachel Reeves warning Labour 'should not be punishing military families at a time of such global instability'.

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6 hours ago Labour councillors urge prime minister to impose arms embargo on Israel over growing death toll in Gaza

In an open letter, the Prime Minister was told by politicians from his own party that he had a 'moral obligation' to act given the growing death toll in Gaza.

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6 hours ago Transgender teachers should be able to use staff school toilets that align with gender identity, governors told

The National Governance Association (NGA), which runs training for school governors and trustees, makes the suggestion in advice for its equality and diversity course.

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8 hours ago El Salvador commits savings from creative debt refinancing to river conservation

One of Central America’s longest rivers will be the primary beneficiary of El Salvador’s deal to refinance $1 billion of debt with support from the United States government, in the latest example of a resurgence in what are known as debt-for-nature swaps

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8 hours ago Rachel Reeves set to keep income tax thresholds frozen... But claims it's NOT a manifesto breach because it's not an increase!

Despite Labour pledges not to increase the tax burden on working people, the Chancellor is said to be prolonging the 'stealth tax' raid beyond 2028 - the end point originally given by Rishi Sunak.

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