3 d. ago Tempers flare as MPs clash over digital ID while petition nears 3million signatures

Labour minister Ian Murray hit back at critics in a spiky exchange in Westminster Hall as SNP MP Pete Wishart led calls for digital ID plans to be scrapped

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3 d. ago Government issues update on stamp duty reform after plans to 'scrap' tax

It was previously revealed that the Treasury is 'looking at’ new property taxes to replace stamp duty

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3 d. ago Rachel Reeves axes ‘arbitrary rules’ costing firms £6 billion ahead of Budget

The Chancellor detailed plans to scrap paperwork for businesses as she looks to fill a black hole in the state’s finances.

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3 d. ago Rachel Reeves to lay out plans to scrap paperwork for thousands of UK firms

The Chancellor is set to launch a fresh ‘crackdown on needless form-filling’ at the Regional Investment Summit in Birmingham on Tuesday.

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8 d. ago Company behind some of Britain's most iconic brands plans to scrap 16,000 jobs

KitKat, Quality Street and Nescafé are all made in the UK and Ireland in a number of factories - full list

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9 d. ago Labour MPs urge Chancellor to scrap hospitality business rates plan

MPs have written to the Chancellor to warn that her reforms run the risk of business closures and job losses.

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2 w. ago Tory plan to scrap green energy measures called ‘contradictory nonsense’ by environment groups – UK politics live

Shadow energy secretary’s plans dismissed as ‘dead wrong’ by environment groupsMel Stride, the shadow chancellor, was doing an interview round for the Conservatives this morning, and Miatta Fahnbulleh, the faith and communities minister, was on the air on behalf of the government. They were both asked about the latest development in the flag phenomenon – the former footballer turned property developer Gary Neville saying that he took down a union flag flying at one of his building sites because he felt it was being used in a “negative fashion”.Asked if Neville (a Labour supporter) had a point, Fahnbulleh told ITV’s Good Morning Britain:I think he’s really right, that there are people who are trying to divide us at the moment I spent a lot of time going around our communities, talking to people. People are ground down. We’ve had a decade-and-a-half in which living standards haven’t budged and people have seen their communities held down. And you will get people trying to stoke divisi...

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer playing the race card against Farage is straight out of Macron's playbook, writes JASON GROVES

'Do you think it's a racist policy,' the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg asked the Prime Minister on Sunday as they discussed Reform's plan to scrap indefinite leave to remain.

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3 w. ago The Guardian view on climate policy: Britain needs clean power, not culture wars | Editorial

Kemi Badenoch’s plan to scrap the Climate Change Act is reckless. Ed Miliband offers a bolder, fairer vision. The future must be built on renewablesLet’s scrap Britain’s successful climate law so we can burn more gas, lose investment and have higher bills. Crazy as it might seem, that is the message of Kemi Badenoch’s new energy strategy. The Conservative leader proposes to repeal the 2008 Climate Change Act in favour of a plan to “maximise oil and gas extraction”, and remove all legally binding carbon targets. It’s pitched as pragmatism. But it’s a lurch into ideological self-harm.Britain’s energy problem isn’t its climate legislation, which is admired globally, backed by industry and supported by the public. It’s that this country remains too dependent on volatile fossil fuels. Emissions targets are not the reason for high bills. It is gas prices, which skyrocketed after Russia invaded Ukraine. They set UK electricity prices. In Europe, they don’t – that’s why bills are lower...

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3 w. ago Ed Miliband tears into Tories over plan to scrap climate act

Kemi Badenoch wants to scrap the Climate Change Act which committed the UK to cut climate emissions by 80% by 2050, with five-yearly carbon budgets to keep the country on track

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3 w. ago New update on calls to scrap UK Government plans for nationwide digital ID cards

Over two million people have signed an online petition calling on the UK Government not to introduce digital ID cards.

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3 w. ago Digital ID petition gets more than 1.5m signatures to scrap plans

It received more than 6,800 signatures in an hour on Saturday morning.

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3 w. ago Petition against Keir Starmer's digital ID cards tops 1.5m signatures in just 24 hours

The petition called on the Government to commit to not introducing digital ID cards stating 'We think this would be a step towards mass surveillance and digital control'

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3 w. ago Petition against digital ID cards tops 1.5 million signatures

Sir Keir Starmer announced on Friday that the Government would introduce a new ID system by 2029.

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3 w. ago Labour's digital ID will be 'the bedrock of our society', says one of Keir Starmer's top aides

Labour 's new digital ID will form 'the bedrock of the modern state', one of the PM's top aides said today as a petition against the policy passed 1.4 million signatures.

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