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How the old became invincible
No politician can be honest about spending on social care
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When a foreign billionaire sacks British workers, the taxpayer gets the bill
How some of the world’s richest people ditch their responsibilities to their employees
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Oil prices mean Starmer must raise tax or face recession
The Iran war is a tax hike imposed by Donald Trump on consumers across the planet
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Will Labour U-turn on student loans?
The threshold freeze will become ever harder to defend
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Does a £150k salary make you rich?
Exclusive poll reveals no matter how wealthy, Britons don’t see themselves as “the rich”
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Five political trends to watch in 2026
Predicting the debates that will dominate the new year
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Did Jeremy Hunt write this Budget?
It’s looking like fiscal drag forever
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Rachel Reeves hits young graduates with a double stealth tax
The Chancellor plans to raise as much money from freezing loan repayment thresholds as from the mansion tax
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Rachel Reeves’s Budget leaks early
The document was released in error more than 40 minutes before the Chancellor’s speech
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Keir Starmer could yet save himself
If only his Chancellor would explain taxes
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Rachel Reeves’s left turn
Why the Chancellor is embracing higher taxes and higher spending.
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How to sell a tax rise
The Chancellor could do worse than reach back into the stories her predecessors told about tax
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Exclusive: New polling signals Rachel Reeves could break tax promises
The first “trade-off” analysis of public attitudes towards tax rises suggests Labour could raise income tax in the Budget
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Is Britain a high-tax country?
Even as overall taxes have risen, most have been paying less
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Labour and the Tories are trapped in a tax hole
By misreading the past, Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch are being hobbled in the present
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Britain can’t afford the ONS’s mistakes any longer
A spare £2bn apparently found down the back of the national sofa is not something to celebrate
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The British public is being gaslit about Angela Rayner
She’s not a saint, but she is nowhere near as bad as the right-wing press would have us believe.
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Could a bank tax rescue the public finances?
A proposed scheme could raise £32bn.
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Rachel Reeves will never get serious on tax
She is fiddling her way into an economic crisis.
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