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Moving home is often voted one of the most stressful things you can do – but this year there are two added pressures. These are the rush to complete before the stamp duty holiday deadline, which expires on 31 March this year, and the complications caused by lockdown restrictions. Since the stamp duty holiday was … Read more
Moving home is often voted one of the most stressful things you can do – but this year there are two added pressures. These are the rush to complete before the stamp duty holiday deadline, which expires on 31 March this year, and the complications caused by lockdown restrictions. Since the stamp duty holiday was … Read more
Labour’s Shadow Cabinet charged thousands in expenses during lockdown, billing taxpayers for first-class travel, rent, TV licences – and even hand gel. Deputy leader Angela Rayner, who boasts of ‘standing up for working people’, claimed £30,952.98 including £1,600 on 23 first-class rail tickets between London and her Manchester constituency since March. Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy … Read more
A savvy couple has revealed the easy money-saving tricks they used to save a £20,000 mortgage deposit in just a year. Marketing manager Callie O’Grady, 23, and her partner Karl, 28, an engineer, set themselves a goal to purchase their first home in 2021, but as first-time buyers during a global pandemic, they knew it … Read more
Top Tories revolt against naming and shaming in expenses probes over fears it will ‘weaponise’ Westminster’s complaints system and deny politicians natural justice By Brendan Carlin Political Correspondent For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:58 GMT, 3 January 2021 | Updated: 01:58 GMT, 3 January 2021 Plans to name and shame MPs embroiled in sleaze probes … Read more
Dr. Dre’s estranged wife Nicole must ‘tighten that belt’ when it comes to spending as she’s accrued nearly $300,000 monthly expenses. The popular rapper and producer is embroiled in an ugly divorce months after she filed to legally end their marriage on the grounds of irreconcilable differences. While she seeks nearly $2million in monthly spousal … Read more
Proving their technological skills in a moment of national crisis, peers have been conducting much of their parliamentary business online for months: even Lord Speaker, Lord Fowler, has presided over debates from the comfort of his home. But some things never change. Amid a bloodbath in the wider economy, their pampered lordships still ran up … Read more
Disgraced Scottish finance secretary Derek Mackay claimed more than £4,400 in expenses for a month after quitting Cabinet for bombarding boy, 16, with 270 texts The MSP quit Nicola Sturgeon’s Cabinet on February 6, the day of the budget It emerged he had bombarded the schoolboy with texts calling him ‘cute’ Figures now reveal he … Read more
A woman who earns significantly less than her husband has vented her frustration that he expects them to split expenses equally. Posting anonymously on Reddit, the American woman explained her husband has a salary that’s $100,000 higher than her income and is set to inherit millions, but still wants bills and luxuries to be split … Read more
Now MPs are told they can claim the cost of Remembrance Day poppy wreaths on expenses MPs have been told they can claim back money on Remembrance day poppies The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority made the decision The Tax Payers’ Alliance utterly outraged by the complete waste of public funds By Anna Mikhailova For The … Read more