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    Jeremy Hunt ‘plans stealth VAT raid’ on small businesses

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Jeremy Hunt is reportedly planning a stealth move to force small businesses to pay thousands more in VAT as part of measures to plug a fiscal black hole feared to […] More

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    Childcare and early years facing 8% budget cut thanks to inflation

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Government funding for early years education and childcare is likely to fall by 8 per cent next year in real terms, economists have warned. The Institute for Fiscal Studies says […] More

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    Government services set to grind to a halt with public sector strikes

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Britain faces “extraordinary disruption” at its borders and crucial government services grinding to a halt if planned public sector strikes go ahead. Some 100,000 civil servants in the Public and […] More

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    Rishi Sunak seeks thawed relations at UK-Ireland summit

    Sign up to our free Brexit and beyond email for the latest headlines on what Brexit is meaning for the UK Sign up to our Brexit email for the latest insight Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is aiming to repair frayed relations with Britain’s European Union neighbors — and with highly skeptical leaders in Scotland and […] More

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    Minister won’t say if nurses deserve to be paid as much as MPs

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Nurses’ pay rise demands have been dismissed as “remarkably high” by a cabinet minister who warned that looming strike action will “completely disrupt” vital NHS services. Chris Heaton-Harris said it was […] More