Keir Starmer urged to get tough with Trump as US tariff threat looms
PM told to be as robust as Canada with the US president as the UK stages last-ditch talks to strike trade deal Keir Starmer should...
Category : Tax and spending
A question for Labour: do you have any real change? | William Keegan
The new government has promised things will be different: but when it comes to spending, we seem stuck on old Tory policies The election campaign...
Green and social groups to benefit from €25m fortune of Austrian heiress
Council of 50 random citizens decide how to use money given up by wealth-tax campaigner Marlene Engelhorn An inherited fortune given away by an Austrian...
UK spends least among major European economies on low-carbon energy policy, study shows
Britain spent about £26bn in three years on low-carbon measures, less than Italy, Germany, France and Spain, Greenpeace finds The UK spends less on low-carbon...
Taxation is not a ‘burden’. It’s Brexit that weighs Britain down | William Keegan
Taxes spent wisely improve lives and attract investors – and in fact leaving the EU has made cutting them harder than ever One of the...
UK outspends rest of Europe on housing asylum seekers by at least 40% a person
Exclusive: Report by aid campaign One finds costs now take up nearly a third of the official aid budget The UK is spending 40% a...
Jeremy Hunt oversaw signing of San Marino low-tax treaty backed by Tory donor
Exclusive: Maurizio Bragagni, who has given over £700k to Tories and £30k to chancellor, attended event UK politics live – latest updates Jeremy Hunt oversaw...
