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Burnham’s budget blasts British baked beans

A spokesperson for Princes Group, which produces Branston Baked Beans in the U.K., said removing tariffs on imported finished baked beans was “unlikely to have a meaningful impact on prices, particularly as there are…

Budget winners and losers: pensioners and households gain as banks and betting shops hit

While some gained from tax breaks and rule tweaks, others will either pay more, or had their hopes of reforms dashed. Here are some of those with reason to cheer, or sigh: Winners Everyone in a band A-D property: A £100…

Burnham insists 'no confusion at all' over his Brexit position

The prime minister said it was his "responsibility" to improve the deal, which was ratified in 2020, at a summit in Brussels next month. He denied he had shifted his stance since the Makerfield by-election when he…

Chris Mason: Budget felt cautious despite its range of small measures

Westminster is poring over the 150 page Red Book in which the Budget is printed and also what is formally called the Economic and Fiscal Outlook published by the watchdog and forecaster the Office for Budget…

Healey gives households £100 to help navigate ‘global economic storms’

In his first budget, the chancellor said 20 million households in council tax bands A to D would receive a £100 payment – a measure he said would cost £2.6bn. That includes equivalent funding for Scotland and Wales…

Le gouvernement met fin à plusieurs programmes de lutte contre la précarité énergétique

Ces programmes ont en commun de cibler des publics qui passent souvent à côté des dispositifs classiques d’aides à la rénovation ou à la mobilité : les ménages très précaires et les collectivités. Ils arrivaient à…

The condiment Budget (Part 2) – Lots and lots of little gherkins, but any meat delayed

It’s always an odd session – for once on a Parliamentary Wednesday the weekly back and forth between two leaders is not the main event and indeed just the round one appetiser for the Leader of the Opposition who has…

Will John Healey’s ‘breathing space’ budget deliver what Britain needs? Our panel responds | Panel

Then he scattered sprinkles of feel-goods. He told the truth about the state we're in, deep in an extra £14bn of expensive debt , and, though he put it politely, at the mercy of the monster in the White House's whims on…

Billionaires shatter spending record to fight California wealth tax

His last disclosed political donation in California was in 2010 — for $200,000 to join other Silicon Valley leaders in opposing an ultimately defeated ballot measure that would’ve suspended a state climate law . Some of…

UK vows defense spending boost by 2030 but dodges hard questions

Healey's more immediate task was to find £4.7 billion to plug gaps in the blueprint for developing the U.K.'s armed forces, the Defence Investment Plan , published earlier this year after long delays. The Treasury said…