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Culture minister Ian Murray is still furious about receiving no explanation over why he was sacked as Scottish secretary More

The Greater Manchester mayor was responding to reports that he plans to run for a parliamentary seat before next May’s local elections to allow him to take over from Keir Starmer More

The “#taxedout” campaign backed by UK Hospitality has seen more than 250 pubs already put up signs banning Labour MPs from their premises More

The Green Party leader has accused Sir Keir Starmer and Labour of matching ‘the racist rhetoric of the far right, from Nigel Farage to Tommy Robinson’ More

Exclusive: Parliament-based campaigners to set out ‘gold-standard’ reforms including banning trail-hunting More

Tom Dolphin says ‘the same model that has worked for all the previous strikes to keep patients safe will apply’ during next week’s planned walkout, which comes amid surging flu cases More

According to an internal leak Labour has lost 100,000 paid up members since the election leaving Reform UK as the UK’s biggest party More

Martin Lewis has delivered his analysis and reaction to the key policy changes outlined in Rachel Reeves Autumn budget, saying that a rise in income tax thresholds is a “stealth tax” that would leave earners worse off. On Wednesday, the Chancellor unveiled £26 billion worth of tax hikes as she tried to close a multi-billion pound hole in the country’s public finances.  The decision to freeze tax thresholds in this Budget from 2028/29 onwards, to help fill a £20bn black hole, will raise £8bn in 2029-30 and drag one in four workers into the highest tax band. A further 780,000 people will pay tax for the first time.The Money Saving Expert founder, whose site provides free and independent advice on saving money, told the BBC’s Martin Lewis Podcast that this represented a “stealth tax” that would leave earners worse off. “You will be worse off. Freezing tax thresholds means that in real-terms, people are actually paying a higher proportion of their income as tax. You’re still taking home more money as you have an income rise. But the spending power of the money you’re taking home can be reduced because of stealth taxes.”Rachel Reeves increased taxes by £26 billion More