Spring Budget 2024: Why a May election is now looking less likely March 6, 2024 After Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Budget, the tide of May election speculation that temporarily flooded Westminster has, well, swept out again.
The Chancellor’s tentative steps towards popular capitalism March 6, 2024 For far too many people, hard work no longer translates into material prosperity. Today’s Budget starts to change that, but there’s much more to do, says Sam Bidwell In amongst the excitement of Budget day, it’s easy to lose sight of the basics. The government’s major fiscal events are an opportunity to identify where our [...]
Spring Budget 2024: Astrazeneca to invest £650m in Cambridge and Liverpool March 6, 2024 AstraZeneca is to invest £650m in the UK, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced in his Spring Budget.
If he can’t cut taxes, the Chancellor must give Brits a stake in the economy March 6, 2024 The Budget is the government’s last chance to set out a vision for the economy before the next election – it should be one that supports hard work, investing and helps people be less dependent on the state, argues James Vitali A Budget speech is an exercise in storytelling: about where the economy is coming [...]
Spring Budget 2024: Hunt to say ‘lower tax means higher growth’ as he slashes NI March 5, 2024 Jeremy Hunt will today unveil a spring budget designed to reverse his party’s lagging polling numbers, headlined by a 2p cut to National Insurance.
Spring Budget 2024: Hunt to extend Covid recovery loans by two years March 5, 2024 The government will reportedly extend a Covid recovery loan programme by two years in a boon to Britain’s small businesses.
Scrapping non-dom status will make some of London a ghost town March 5, 2024 If we start taxing non-UK income and assets, we may as well pack non-doms bags for them. There is a better way, says Steve Rigby Are the leaks suggesting Jeremy Hunt is ready to scrap tax rules for non-doms to be taken seriously? Or was this one of the now-traditional pre-Budget exercises in kite-flying to [...]
Spring Budget 2024: Jeremy Hunt to cut national insurance rather than income tax as rate windfall fails to materialise March 5, 2024 The Chancellor has repeatedly stressed his determination to bring down the tax burden, which is on course to rise to record levels no matter what Hunt announces in the Budget.
Spring Budget 2024: Six things to look out for March 5, 2024 One thing is certain in the Spring Budget: Hunt will cut taxes. We do not know exactly what taxes he will cut or by how much, but with the Conservatives trailing Labour by as much as 20 percentage points, tax cuts are guaranteed.
Conservative support falls to lowest levels on record as Starmer lead stretches further March 4, 2024 Support for the Conservatives has dropped to its lowest level on record, according to a new poll.