14 h. ago Middle classes will bear the brunt of new Rachel Reeves tax raid, Labour minister hints

Yesterday Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander again failed to deny that Labour is looking to hike taxes, but said the Government would be guided by 'fairness'.

Politics

25 h. ago Labour minister hints at tax hikes for middle class – but rules out rises for people on ‘modest incomes’

Transport secretary says ministers have promised not to raise taxes for ‘people on modest incomes’

Politics

2 w. ago Private school announces 'devastating' closure after 127 years blaming Labour's tax raid on fees

Moorlands School in Leeds, which charges up to £4,000 a term, said it will close at the end of the autumn term.

Economics

2 w. ago Thousands of millionaires to flee Britain in record numbers to escape Labour's tax raids

An unprecedented 16,500 wealthy Britons are predicted to leave this year amid a darkening economic outlook.

Economics

3 w. ago From Beersheba to Babylon: Netanyahu casts himself as liberator of Iran

Speaking at a hospital hit by an Iranian missile, the Israeli prime minister invoked ancient Persia as he hinted at a historic missionIt was in the Beersheba, about a thousand kilometers and 2,500 years from Babylon, that Benjamin Netanyahu suggested on Thursday that the time had come for the Jews to repay their ancient debt to Cyrus the Great and bring liberation to Iran.The Israeli prime minister had just made a tour of Beersheba’s Soroka hospital which a few hours earlier had sustained a direct hit from an Iranian ballistic missile on one of its buildings. It was for that reason the scene of an escape which was already being dubbed miraculous by Israel’s leaders. Continue reading...

Politics

4 w. ago Labour MP accuses families impacted by tax raid on private schools of 'crying to the courts' after they lost High Court bid to stop VAT on fees

Jonathan Hinder, a Labour MP, has accused families impacted by the private school tax raid of 'crying to the courts' after they lost a bid to stop the VAT on fees.

Economics