3 hours ago Angela Rayner's expected double assault on aspiration expected to hit high earners and Right to Buy

Whitehall sources said Angela Rayner is poised to slash discounts for council house tenants looking to buy their home, despite benefiting from the scheme herself.

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5 hours ago KEVIN HOLLINRAKE: Labour MUST urgently rethink their draconian workers rights Bill as its a catastrophic own goal

KEVIN HOLLINRAKE: It is now clear hardworking Britons are being sacrificed on the altar of Left-wing dogma to satisfy Labour's union paymasters and get woke laws in by the back door.

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6 hours ago PM faces pressure from Labour ranks and Caribbean nations over reparations

The Prime Minister will travel to Samoa this week for the biennial gathering of heads of government for the 56 nations.

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6 hours ago Rise in bailout requests ‘likely’ as councils warn of bankruptcy threat

The number of councils applying for Government financial support is expected to rise significantly without an improved funding settlement.

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12 hours ago Employment Rights Bill will cost businesses up to £5bn a year, government’s own analysis warns

The legislation will have a greater impact on small businesses, the impact assessment warns

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13 hours ago Fury as Angela Rayner claims workers' rights overhaul will boost the economy after the government's own analysis suggests it could cost business £5BILLION a year and lead to price rises and job cuts

The Deputy Prime Minister was harangued by Tories in the Commons today as she insisted the Employments Rights Bill would have a 'positive impact on growth'.

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13 hours ago Employment Rights Bill will cost business up to £5bn a year, government’s own analysis warns

The legislation will have a greater impact on small businesses, the impact assessment warns

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14 hours ago Employment rights bill will cost firms £5bn per year but benefits will justify costs, government says – UK politics live

Analysis from business and trade department says bill will significantly strengthen workers’ rightIn the past the weirdest budget tradition was the convention that the chancellor is allowed to drink alcohol while delivering the budget speech. But since no chancellor has taken advantage of the rule since the 1990s (and no one expects Rachel Reeves to be quaffing on Wednesday week), this tradition is probably best viewed as lapsed.But Sam Coates from Sky News has discovered another weird budget ritual. On his Politics at Jack and Sam’s podcast, he says:Someone messaged me to say: ‘Did you know that over in the Treasury as they’ve been going over all these spending settlements, in one of the offices, its full of balloons. And every time an individual department finalises its settlements, o...

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15 hours ago Angela Rayner wins a seat on Keir Starmer's national security council as PM U

No10 confirmed today that the Deputy Prime Minister would join other senior ministers on the crucial committee, in 'recognition of the expectation that [she] will attend this committee regularly'.

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