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  • Lawyers warn farmers: Labour’s U-turn on IHT threshold “not an all-clear”

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    Lawyers warned that, despite Labour’s U-turn on the inheritance tax relief threshold for farms, many agricultural families may still be impacted, and significant tax burdens may remain for some estates. In a whiplash U-turn, the Labour government revealed on Tuesday that, after a year of backlash from rural communities, it would increase the Agricultural and [...]

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  • Keir Starmer urges public to ‘reach out’ as he acknowledges cost-of-living struggle

    Politics

    Prime Minister Keir Starmer has acknowledged that many are “still struggling with the cost of living” in a Christmas message posted on Wednesday morning. He said “we should each do our bit” as he urged people to “call around to a neighbour, check in on a friend or a relative who you haven’t heard from [...]

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  • Can you complete City AM’s economics quiz of 2025? 

    Economics

    Test your knowledge with City AM‘s Economics Quiz of 2025. The first full calendar year of the Labour government has not been particularly pretty for the UK economy.  The unemployment rate has edged up to 5.1 per cent, inflation rose far above the Bank of England’s 2 per cent target rate and economic activity was [...]

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  • Regulators show their teeth – financial services fines in 2025

    December 24, 2025

    UK watchdogs sharpened their sword in 2025 and slapped a handful of financial services firms with hefty fines and a thorough dressing down. In just under a week alone in July, the Financial Conduct Authority and Bank of England handed out £74.9m worth of fines to a trio of financial services giants. But it was [...]

  • Labour U-turns on inheritance tax raid after year of farmer protests

    December 23, 2025

    The Labour government will raise the inheritance tax relief threshold for farms in another dramatic U-turn following a year of backlash from rural communities. On Tuesday, the Treasury and Department for Food and Rural Affairs said it would increase the Agricultural and Business Property Reliefs threshold to £2.5m from £1m when it is introduced in [...]

  • Hedge fund tycoon Alan Howard quits UK for Switzerland

    December 23, 2025

    The co-founder of Brevan Howard Asset Management, Alan Howard, is the latest wealthy individual to exit the UK following tax hikes imposed by the Labour government. The hedge fund tycoon relocated from Britain to Switzerland in early June, according to an analysis of UK registry filings by Bloomberg. Howard had previously moved from London to [...]

  • Property slump hits half of London as prime boroughs lead the decline

    December 23, 2025

    London has a “two-speed” market, as house prices are falling in about half of London’s boroughs, with the most expensive boroughs hit the hardest. The average house price in London for October was £547,000, down 2.4 per cent from the previous year, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The data also showed that [...]

  • Tears, scandal, c*ck-ups and conspiracy: Westminster’s worst moments of 2025

    December 23, 2025

    Westminster never disappoints.  When Keir Starmer came into Downing Street, he promised that politics would “tread more lightly” on the lives of everyday people.  He was likely referring to the farce of Partygate, leadership battles and political blunders under successive Tory governments.  But Labour have got caught up in less than pleasant situations of their [...]

  • Business confidence ticked up after Budget, Lloyds Bank says

    December 23, 2025

    Business confidence inched up at the end of 2025, according to a new survey, as firms were brought some relief and clarity after the Autumn Budget. Lloyds Banking Group’s latest Business Barometer found business confidence etched up 10 points by the end of 2025 when compared with the beginning of the year. Half of this [...]

  • ‘Spectre of recession’ looms with growth set to dim in 2026

    December 22, 2025

    The government is facing a critical warning over the looming “spectre of recession” after economic growth stalled in the second half of 2025 and is expected to wane in the new year. On Monday, fresh figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) downgraded the economy’s second quarter expansion to a sluggish 0.2 per cent [...]

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