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Labour to stage a budget inheritance tax raid – here’s who it could hit_Nhy

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is reportedly planning to launch an inheritance tax raid on savers in the Budget, potentially by changing the key thresholds or other reliefs. Inheritance tax is currently charged at 40 per cent on assets above the main…

Chancellor must not ‘punish’ military families with Labour’s tax raid on private schools ‘at a time of such global instability’, Tory peer urges_Nhy

The Chancellor must announce a reprieve for military and diplomatic families from its VAT raid on private schools, a Conservative peer is urging. Ten days before the Budget, Lord Kempsell has written to Rachel Reeves warning Labour ‘should not be punishing military families at a time…

Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves is warned her inheritance tax hike will decimate middle class savings and leave ‘people who have saved all their life’ without an inheritance to pass to their children_Nhy

Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves has been warned her inheritance tax hike will decimate middle class savings. It has been reported by the BBC that she is planning on increasing the amount of money raised from inheritance tax in her October 30 budget. But as the backlash…

Labour faces fresh demands to U-turn on winter fuel cuts after ‘damning’ new letter_Nhy

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves have axed winter fuel payments for millions of people (Image: Getty) Labour faced fresh demands to U-turn on winter fuel payment cuts after criticism from a committee that scrutinises the Government’s welfare policies. In a…

Labour issued warning over ‘cruel’ Winter Fuel Payment policy_Nhy

The government received criticism over its decision (Image: Getty Images) The shadow work and pensions secretary wants the Government to backtrack on its move to means-test Winter Fuel Payments, insisting they should “follow their own advice, and unpick this cruel policy”….

I’ve voted Labour all my life but can’t forgive ‘freebie’ Starmer for Winter Fuel raid’_Nhy

Linda Southall never believed that Labour would take her Winter Fuel Payment away (Image: Getty) Linda, 67, was so into Labour politics that she would take a week off work simply to watch the party’s annual conference. Yet she still couldn’t…

Labour accused of ‘a naïve attempt to suck up to China’ as David Lammy arrives in Beijing amid claims ministers have gone soft over Uyghur ‘genocide’_Nhy

Labour was accused of ‘a naïve attempt to suck up to China’ today as foreign secretary David Lammy arrived in Beijing for talks. The Foreign Secretary has been accused of backtracking on plans for the UK to formally recognise China‘s treatment of its Uyghur Muslim minority as genocide….

Rachel Reeves to hammer families in Budget by ‘cutting inheritance tax and stamp duty relief’ while upping fuel duty to help fill Treasury coffers (and vaping will cost more too)_Nhy

Middle class families appear to be facing a Budget pummelling from Rachel Reeves as she looks to end tax breaks in a scramble for cash. The Chancellor will reportedly end a temporary increase to the stamp duty threshold, landing buyers with a…

Entire nursery classes will be hit by Labour VAT raid on private schools – despite pledge to exempt them from planned tax_Nhy

Entire nursery classes will be drawn into Labour‘s VAT raid on independent schools, HMRC documents have confirmed. The tax will apply to private schools that keep five-year-olds back a year because of developmental issues. The documents show VAT applies to all private school classes containing…

Elon Musk joins Republican ‘outrage’ as UK’s Labour Party sends 100 staff to help Dems win in swing states_Nhy

Elon Musk has joined Republicans in their outrage after the UK’s Labour Party is set to send 100 staff to help Democrats in swing states. Activists from Keir Starmer‘s party will spend the next fortnight canvassing for Kamala Harris in four key states ahead of the November 5 election….