Bill Gates criticises Budget cut to overseas aid
Hidden in the Budget was a decision not to renew a Tory-era £2.5bn top-up to the UK’s overseas aid budget....
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Labour hands £1.5bn pensions pot back to miners
The government has received £4.8bn from the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme through a deal struck in 1994....
Green farming budget freeze ‘will hit nature work’
Environmental groups warn that next year’s farm payments budget will not be enough to protect nature....
Farmers ‘betrayed’ by £1m inheritance tax relief cap
Changes announced to inheritance tax rules could see the end of small family farms, warns the NFU....
Ofcom fines GB News £100,000 over impartiality
The media watchdog says the broadcast channel allowed the then-prime minister to go unchallenged....
Is there a £22bn ‘black hole’ in the UK’s public finances?
Economists say the state of public finances should not have come as a complete surprise to the new government....
Voting to end in Conservative leadership contest
Tory members are choosing between Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick to replace Rishi Sunak....
‘Right thing’ for businesses and wealthiest to pay more – Reeves
‘Right thing’ for businesses and wealthiest to pay more – Reeves...
Stamp duty tax on second homes to rise
The higher rate paid on additional properties will rise from 3% to 5% from 31 October....
Warning ‘pain’ of tax hikes to hit jobs and pay rises
The chancellor says businesses will “contribute more” as she raises employer National Insurance to 15%....