Families turn to life assurance to swerve inheritance tax reforms
Britain’s wealthy are being pushed towards “whole of life” cover to reduce the pain of inheritance tax in an “economic own ...
Rachel Reeves is having no more joy from the OBR and the Bank than Liz Truss did
We will all be paying even higher taxes very soon. There will not be many jobs, and we may not even be able to switch on the ...
'What were they doing for 14 years?' Financial experts offer scathing verdict on Labour
Rather than asking banks for help, Rachel Reeves and her Labour colleagues should already have worked out what they were ...
Rachel Reeves issued dire recession warning as ‘slow motion car crash accelerating’
The Chancellor's Budget is harming the UK's job market, an expert has said, as "good people are losing their roles".
Labour backbenchers call for ‘meaningful tweaks’ to farm inheritance tax plan
Farmers protested in Whitehall and Parliament Square on Monday, blasting their horns to tunes including Old MacDonald Had A ...
Rachel Reeves to meet bank bosses as growth agenda stalls
Reeves is reportedly calling in top executives at Barclays, Lloyds, NatWest and Nationwide, according to Sky News' Mark ...
Cleared for take-off - but Heathrow's third runway still faces many obstacles
Almost 84 million passengers passed through Heathrow last year, a record, representing a far faster recovery to pre-Covid ...
GDP figures to pile further pressure on Reeves as recession risks mount
The UK likely slipped into contraction in the final quarter of last year, in a further sign of the challenges facing Rachel ...
There isn’t enough ‘sustainable’ aviation fuel to make a dent in our emissions – and there won’t be for years
Coming into effect in January, the UK’s SAF mandate sets legal obligations for aviation fuel suppliers in the UK to ...
Opinion
Why liberating UK economy from remaining EU rules is Rachel Reeves' only hope
The latest ploy is to say that because of the likelihood of President Donald Trump introducing tariffs on EU goods, we should move closer to the EU as an act of solidarity. Well solidarity won’t ...
Plan to increase personal tax allowance from £12,570 to £20,000 update as Commons debate looms
Frozen since 2021 are the £12,570 threshold at which earners begin forking out basic 20 per cent tax, as well as the £50,270 ...
Farmers protest live: Tractors and tanks descend on Westminster as Nigel Farage calls for end to ‘death taxes’
British farmers are set to descend on Whitehall for the third time in four months as they demand the government rethinks its ...