27 h. ago Jet2 boss urges Chancellor against raising travel tax ahead of Budget

Exclusive: ‘People want to be looked after, forget about daily life, and just relax,’ says CEO Steve Heapy

Economics

52 h. ago Rachel Reeves warned gambling tax hikes will 'hammer punters' and 'shut 3,400 bookies'

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is being urged by the IPPR think tank to more than double the tax rate on gaming machines in her Budget on November 26

Events

2 d. ago STEPHEN GLOVER: Davie had to go but who believes it will really change the woke sect that the BBC has become?

Nearly a week has passed since we learned about a leaked report showing how BBC 's Panorama had doctored a speech by Donald Trump to make him say something awful that he hadn't actually said.

Politics

3 d. ago Fury as Reeves set to increase dividend tax in ‘hammer blow’ for investors in nightmare Budget

RACHEL Reeves is set to increase dividend tax in a "hammer blow" to investors in the upcoming Budget. In a move that has sparked fury, the Chancellor will reportedly increase the tax rate on earnings from shares in her Autumn budget this month. Brits are bracing for a raft of tax hikes on November 26...

Economics

4 d. ago More than 1mn paid highest rate of tax last year due to frozen thresholds

Fiscal drag accounts for two-thirds of those paying the additional rate of income tax

Politics

7 d. ago How a Zohran Mamdani policy could transform New York and beyond by eliminating costly issue affecting millions

To fund his policies, Mamdani has proposed an increase of the state’s corporate tax rate and raising the city’s income tax by 2 percentage points on New Yorkers earning more than $1 million a year

Economics

7 d. ago I've got news for the BBC bosses who think they'll get away with fabricating a damaging Trump quote: A huge storm is coming: STEPHEN GLOVER

What would you say if you learnt that the BBC had doctored a video of a politician's speech to make him sound more extreme, incendiary and dangerous than he really was?

Politics

8 d. ago I won't quit even if I break my promise not to raise tax, Rachel Reeves says

The Chancellor hinted she is considering the first rise in the basic rate of income tax for half a century, saying 'we will all have to contribute' at the November 26 Budget.

Politics

8 d. ago Anas Sarwar challenges John Swinney to use £1 billion underspend as Holyrood braces for UK Budget

The rate of income tax paid by workers in Scotland is set by Holyrood but a hike elsewhere in the UK could still have a negative impact on public spending north of the Border.

Economics

8 d. ago See how much Income Tax hike could cost YOU as Reeves refuses to rule out rises

You currently pay the basic 20% rate of Income Tax when you earn above £12,570, then the higher rate of 40% income tax kicks in on earnings above £50,270

Economics

9 d. ago STEPHEN GLOVER: Is this the REAL reason Rachel Reeves has not been sacked for breaking the law?

She made a crucial change in information she gave the Prime Minister about the letting of her house in the London Borough of Southwark from September 2024.

Politics

1 week ago STEPHEN GLOVER: Keir Starmer will do everything he can to save this terrible Chancellor. To lose her would almost certainly mark the end for him, too

What contempt these Labour politicians hold us in. How little they must think of us. They treat us as fools.

Events

1 week ago Reeves says she should have checked rental licence had been obtained as letting agent apologises – UK politics live

No 10 releases redacted emails between Reeves’ husband and letting agentRachel Reeves’ rental error: standards adviser looking at new informationRobert Peston, ITV’s political editor, says he thinks it is a mistake for the Conservatives to be saying Rachel Reeves should have to resign over the rental licence error. He explains why in a post on social media. Here is an extract.Kemi Badenoch’s call for Starmer to sack Reeves, for failing to register her family home when she rented it on moving to Downing Street, lowers the bar quite significantly for sackable offences by ministers. I am not certain all her shadow cabinet colleagues will thank her.The point is that there is a clear distinction between Rayner’s failure to take stamp duty advice and Reeves’s failure to register her home with the council for rent. Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago See how much Income Tax hike could cost YOU as Starmer refuses to rule out rises

You currently pay the basic 20% rate of Income Tax when you earn above £12,570, then the higher rate of 40% income tax kicks in on earnings above £50,270

Economics

2 w. ago The public will recoil at a mansion tax. Unlike the unpopular Labour Party, most voters don't want class warfare: STEPHEN GLOVER

Starmer and Reeves are doomed - distrusted by most Labour MPs and detested throughout the land. Sir Keir probably won't be PM this time next year and Rachel will no longer be Chancellor.

Politics

2 w. ago Rachel Reeves 'considering breaking Labour manifesto pledge with income tax rise at Budget'

Treasury discussions to fill estimated £30billion gap include possibly adding 1p to basic rate or raising higher or additional tax rates

Economics

3 w. ago Travel bosses issue holiday cost warning over Rachel Reeves’s tax proposals

Jet2 and Tui bosses have warned tax rises could make holidays too costly for some

Events

3 w. ago For all Blair's faults, he presided over growth Reeves would die for. So why won't she take his advice and lower the top rate of tax? STEPHEN GLOVER

Let us try, in a charitable spirit, to enter the mind of Rachel Reeves and see whether we can help her, writes STEPHEN GLOVER.

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