Employers say they will be counting costs of budget amid increases to national insurance contributions Reeves accused of betraying small family firms Marie Cooper has plans to grow her Midlands engineering business next year, making more of the pistons and pipework that planes, cars and oilfield machinery need. That should […]
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The government knows cynical voters will need to see tangible change in public services and to feel better off At the final political cabinet before Rachel Reeves delivered her first budget this week, ministers were presented with internal party research on what the public was expecting. In the months since […]
Having announced minimum wage boost, chancellor to say she can spare working people from tax rises The UK’s national minimum wage is to rise by a higher than expected 6.7% next year, Rachel Reeves has announced before a multi-billion pound tax-raising budget designed to act as the springboard for a […]
Almost half of global land area saw extreme drought for at least one month, according to Lancet Countdown Heat-related deaths, food insecurity and the spread of infectious diseases caused by the climate crisis have reached record levels, according to a landmark report. The Lancet Countdown’s ninth report on health and […]
Vice-president strikes hopeful tone in remarks delivered from site of Trump’s speech before deadly January 6 attack With the White House illuminated behind her, Kamala Harris asked the vanishing slice of undecided Americans to elect a “new generation of leadership”, likening Donald Trump to a “petty tyrant” who had stood […]
Punches were allegedly exchanged in ‘extraordinary’ incident that delayed plane at Heathrow for two hours Two women were removed from a British Airways flight at Heathrow after an altercation reportedly provoked by a Make America Great Again (Maga) cap. The incident occurred on Saturday as the women, aged 40 and […]
Axel Rudakubana, 18, who is already charged with three counts of murder, faces new charges of possessing terrorist material and making poison The suspect accused of murdering three girls in Southport is facing new charges of possessing terrorist material and producing the highly toxic poison ricin, police have announced. Axel […]
Funding for more surgical hubs and radiotherapy machines planned in what PM says will be budget to ‘fix foundations’ The budget will revive a “broken but not beaten” NHS, Labour ministers have said, with billions of pounds of funding to be announced in an effort to cut record waiting lists. […]
Lawmakers also voted to declare UN relief agency a terror group, banning any direct interaction with Israeli state Middle East crisis – latest updates Israel’s parliament has voted to ban the UN relief and works agency (Unrwa) from the country within 90 days, in defiance of US and other international […]