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Rishi Sunak’s £400bn balancing act: With the Budget fast approaching, here’s how the Chancellor can raise revenues without wrecking the Covid recovery By Douglas Mcwilliams Founder Of The Centre For Economic And Business Research Published: 22:06 GMT, 17 February 2021 | Updated: 22:06 GMT, 17 February 2021 The last new tax proposed by an economist … Read more
The mutterings that keep emerging from the Treasury about increasing taxes to balance the books are economically incomprehensible. Such action would not only be wrong, it would be completely counter-productive. We Tories must be honest with ourselves and with the public: There is no way we can balance the costs of the crisis in the … Read more
Sir Keir Starmer has warned that tax rises and austerity risk ‘choking off’ a rapid economic revival after the coronavirus pandemic. The Labour leader said he wanted to model the UK’s recovery on Clement Attlee’s post-Second World War strategy to restore Britain’s ‘backbone’. ‘In the short term, you don’t balance the books and you don’t … Read more
As is usual at tax year-end, investors are rushing to venture capital trusts to invest in some of the UK’s best up-and-coming businesses. The total amount raised by VCTs this tax year so far stands at £360million, a 1.2 per cent increase compared to this point last year, and that’s despite the backdrop of Covid-19. … Read more
Amte Power seeks stock market listing to finance its development of battery cell tech for use in cars and the energy industry Thurso-based Amte Power has said it would like to raise around £7million Amte Power is one of the UK’s only five commercial battery cell producers Ultra High Power, Ultra Safe and Ultra Prime … Read more
Wellwishers have raised £18,938 for the funerals of an NHS worker and her daughter who were murdered by her estranged husband before he died in a car crash. The two women, named locally as Emma Robertson Coupland, 24, and Nicole Anderson, 39, were killed by Steven Robertson, 40, who later died in a car crash. … Read more
The second part of Southern Charms’ reunion episode went off the rails after Kathryn Dennis defended herself against racism accusations from her costar Leva Bonaparte. In a new clip from Thursday night’s show obtained by People, Dennis, 29, claimed that Bonaparte had used the controversy to ‘come up’ on the series. Back in May, Dennis … Read more
A police force already grabbing £6million-a-year in speeding fines urged ‘complacent’ officers to ‘up their game’ and ‘bring in more’, leaked emails revealed today. Cheshire Police allegedly warned staff operating camera vans they were ‘too lenient’ and should be looking to up their targets and snare another 2,400 speeding drivers a month – worth £240,000 … Read more
A dog who lost part of her nose due to abuse at the hands of Chinese meat traders underwent life-changing facial reconstruction surgery after her owner crowdfunded £4,500 for treatment. The Belgian shepherd, called Angel, was rescued in 2015 from Changchun, China, when activists seized a truckload of dogs destined for the slaughterhouse. The six-year-old dog had … Read more
Tamzin Outhwaite has credited her toyboy Tom Child for helping raise her daughters Florence, 12, and Marnie, eight in a new interview. The actress, 50, hailed the producer, 29, ‘a really special human’ as she spoke to hosts Jenny Powell and Kelly Pegg about their ‘organised chaos’ for this week’s The Hot Mess Mum Club podcast. Shedding light … Read more