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 Labour has accused the government of pushing forward with low-tax, low-regulation investment zones without any evidence they will boost the economy. The flagship planning policy is one of the last […] More
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 Wages are to drop by £4,000 in real terms over the next three years, according to new analysis by the TUC, which is also warning ministers that it will take […] More
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 Liz Truss has said she will lead the Conservatives into the next general election – as a new poll shows her party faces a wipeout. In an interview with the […] More
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 The future of the “triple lock” protection for state pensions was tonight thrown into doubt after new chancellor Jeremy Hunt refused to commit himself to keeping it. Charities voiced alarm […] More
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 The government’s economic policy U-turn will send the UK’s taxes to their highest level since the 1950s, economists have said. The new chancellor Jeremy Hunt on Monday scrapped 60 per […] More
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 Liz Truss was jeered by opposition MPs as she arrived in the Commons after her mysterious absence from parliament on Monday afternoon. Commons leader Penny Mordaunt fuelled feverish online speculation […] More
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 The Conservatives would face near wipeout in a general election, a new poll suggests, as Liz Truss’s government continues to implode. The survey, released on Monday afternoon, is the worst […] More
The pound strengthened and interest on government debt fell as the markets reacted positively to the new chancellor’s dismantling of the September financial plan.Jeremy Hunt, the former health and foreign secretary, on Monday took an axe to the statement outlined by his predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng only weeks ago.Mr Hunt scrapped virtually all of the measures outlined Ms Truss’s economic plan, including a 1p cut to the basic rate of income tax, currently at 20p. More
