City watchdog ‘stands ready’ to act on bank windfall tax Budget leak Regulation The boss of the Financial Conduct Authority has said he is prepared to investigate a potential leak of market-sensitive information that sparked a rally in bank shares hours before John Healey’s maiden Budget. In a letter to the Treasury Committee, Nikhil Rathi vowed to engage with Treasury and Cabinet Office officials over how the details [...]
OBR accidentally publishes full Budget before Reeves speech Politics The government will freeze income tax thresholds, implement a mansion tax and freeze fuel duty according to an unprecedented leak from the government’s fiscal watchdog that revealed its full scorecard for the Budget update before the Chancellor delivered her speech. The Office for Budget Responsibility released its full report on the government’s fiscal plans for [...]
Will the Afghan leak win votes for Nigel Farage? Don’t be so sure Opinion Nigel Farage and Reform UK have made hay out of the government’s embarrassing leak and subsequent cover-up of information concerning Afghan asylum applications. But it may not be the vote-winner he thinks, says William Atkinson “The supreme function of statesmanship,” according to Enoch Powell, “is to provide against preventable evils’” Considering that, what should we [...]