Tag: Budget

Farmer John Charlesworth has taken his own life in fear of the Government’s inheritance tax raid, his son has said.

Homeowners face paying an extra £13,000 on their mortgages following Rachel Reeves’s high-spend Budget that the OBR predicts will drive up mortgage rates from 3.7% to 4.5%.

Green levies helping to support supposed cheap wind and solar power have soared in Labour's Budget and will quickly add many hundreds of pounds to household electricity bills, says Chris Morrison.

The OBR's damning Budget verdict has given the Tories ammunition for years, says Fraser Nelson. When it seemed politically expedient Labour pledged its devotion to the OBR. It's now facing the consequences.

Labour’s newly appointed 'Value for Money' tsar will be paid the equivalent of a £247,000 annual salary, despite a track record of overseeing projects beset by delays and spiralling costs.

David Turver looks at the energy horrors in Labour's Budget, including 22% more cash for Ed Miliband's Net Zero Department to waste on green energy unicorns and billions more in renewable subsidies.

Rachel Reeves has been slammed for "destroying the family farm" by imposing inheritance tax on agricultural land, forcing grieving families to sell up to pay the huge bill.

Government borrowing costs surged to their highest level in nearly a year after the largest tax raising Budget in history as the OBR said that workers will shoulder 80% of the National Insurance rise.

Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who, it emerged this week, has hung a picture of Communist Party founder Ellen Wilkinson above her desk, has delivered her budget. Is it one that her heroine would be proud of?

Keir Starmer has suffered the biggest fall in approval rating after winning an election of any Prime Minister in the modern era – plummeting 49 points from plus-11 to minus-38 – a poll has shown.