5 key takeaways from Jeremy Hunt’s budget
A budget totally out of step with what people want and need.
A budget totally out of step with what people want and need.
The chancellor is preparing to announce the second big cut to employment taxes in a year, after his decision to cut national insurance rates by 2p at last year’s autumn statement, portraying it as a pre-election giveaway
‘The chancellor delivered a continuation of austerity, public spending cuts and tax hikes.’
Ian Blackford has slammed plans by the UK’s Conservative government to hike National Insurance (NI) as a “new Tory poll tax” and claimed that independence is the only answer to a new wave of “austerity”.
‘We need a tax rise to pay for social care, but not this one’.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s plan for employers to start paying towards the cost of the coronavirus job retention scheme has been welcomed by unions, writes Tony Burke.
The road to health is paved with good intentions…
John McDonnell says it will take two years to ‘turn’ public perception
Leading analysts regret the failure of Philip Hammond’s ‘small but sensible’ change
The Labour Party leader must sharpen his remarks at PMQs