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David Laws: We can cut taxes for middle- and lower-income Britain while asking for a bigger contribution from the top 1%-5% of earners [...] Read more ...
David Laws: We can cut taxes for middle- and lower-income Britain while asking for a bigger contribution from the top 1%-5% of earners [...] Read more ...
Citing the Data Protection Act, the Bank of England have refused to tell Guido how much they pay Alison, their full-time trade union officia [...] Read more ...
“It’s true that SA revenues are a bit disappointing — it’s still early, but it looks like there’s been quite a lot of forestalling and other [...] Read more ...
Congratulations to Cllr Louise McKinlay, the leader of Conservative-run Brentwood Council and her team on achieving a 2.1% reduction in Council Tax. At the same time spending on front line services is being increased. Big savings have resulted from sharing [...] Read more ...
Provisional monthly figures for headcount, full time equivalent, role count and turnover of NHS Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) staff groups working in England (excluding primary care staff) [...] Read more ...
A controversial anti-piracy agreement is to be referred to the EU's highest court due to concerns surrounding internet freedoms. Read more ...
"Pressure on family finances is reaching boiling point and people need help. That is why Liberal Democrats believe we should be cutting taxes for millions of working people across this country. "The Liberal Democrat plan to make the first £10,000 you earn tax-free would deliver a £700 tax cut for ordinary working people -- that's an extra £60 of [...] Read more ...
I don’t know what annoys me more – that a high-level Labour politician can have such misguided ideas, or that the outcome of an event is reported in such a one-sided manner in the press. I am referring to The Guardian’s report on today’s IPPR event on the EU’s democratic deficit (I attended), in which former Foreign Minister Jack Straw st [...] Read more ...
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Today’s FT reports that additional council tax bands are being considered as part of the Budget process. But there are several problems with introducing new council tax [...] Read more ...
Britain, according to some people, has quite a lot of slaves. It has the slaves you sometimes hear about, who are smuggled into the country by very bad people, and locked in dirty cellars, and sometimes beaten, and sometimes starved. But it also has quite a lot of slaves who aren't locked in cellars, or beaten, or starved. It has quite a lot of sla [...] Read more ...
In 24 hours, Europe could introduce pollution controls that could stop the flow of Canada's deadly tar sands oil into the EU. But the UK is moving to block the rules. Only a huge public outcry can save it now. Click below to send an urgent message to the Transport Minister Norman Baker: [...] Read more ...
International medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres calls for more money to be made available to treat HIV and Aids in Burma. Read more ...
It's no longer just about finance ledgers and cash flow. These days, any FD worth their salt is an expert in all aspects of the business in [...] Read more ...
Huge tax increases are now only 9 months away. Read more ...
The CBI is calling on the Chancellor to use his March Budget to score the growth and investment policy goals he put forward in his Autumn Statement and give the UK economy and jobs a real boost [...] Read more ...
Women and part time workers are the majority of local government workers - and most vulnerable to the pay squeeze. Read more ...
Jack Straw appears to be the latest prominent politician to jump on the EU for what he perceives as its “democratic deficit”. He even went a [...] Read more ...
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Jack says the turnout in European parliament elections is too low, but turnout is also low in local authority elections and I’ve not seen calls for councils to be abolished on this basis. He calls for ‘an assembly of national parliaments’ to replace the European parliament. MEPs need to be skilled negotiators who can broker diplomatic deals a [...] Read more ...
Asset manager Threadneedle has dismissed a junior trader after internal controls picked up an attempted rogue trade [...] Read more ...
Roubini: Greek Austerity Measures Will Worsen Debt Dynamics [...] Read more ...
London’s streets are filled with buses, taxis and vans powered by the compression engine he invented. But they are also filled with the nast [...] Read more ...
The European Commission plans to freeze 495m euros of funding for Hungary, lamenting the country's excessive budget deficit. Read more ...
Barclays made a serious error over the pay of John Varley, the bank's former chief executive who stepped down in 2010 with a 'goodbye package' of nearly £4m - it wasn't enough! Read more ...
This was the image with which David Cameron launched a presidential-style election campaign yesterday that he hopes will sweep him into No.10. Read more ...
We can cut taxes for middle- and lower-income Britain while asking for a bigger contribution from the top 1%-5% of earners. Nick Clegg is su [...] Read more ...
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Dear Londoner, Fares are too high and something needs to change. I will cut fares by 5% and will save the average London transport user over ÂŁ800. Sign up here [...] Read more ...
Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin makes moving address in defence of her craft at a commemoration for journalists killed on assignment [...] Read more ...
Duncan Weldon: Once again rightwing scaremongering that the Treasury would lose money has been proved wrong [...] Read more ...
Oil prices in the UK today became the first of the major countries to set a new 2012 record. FT investment editor James Mackintosh examines the impact of oil prices on equities. Read more ...
The 50% tax rate for people earning Ł150,000 or more comes into force with the start of the new financial year. Read more ...
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FIRST Minister Carwyn Jones today joined the Archbishop of Canterbury and Microsoft founder Bill Gates in backing calls for a so-called Robin Hood tax on financial transactions. Read more ...
Some opposition leaders have the natural gift of looking Prime Ministerial even if they have never previously held the lowliest of ministeri [...] Read more ...
Hungary condemned as âunfounded and unfairâ European Commission plans to suspend funding worth nearly â¬500m next year because of an excessive budget deficit. The sharp response came after Brussels warned on Wednesday that Hungary would lose up to â¬49 [...] Read more ...
Microsoft opened a fresh front in its legal battle with Google, lodging a complaint with Europe’s competition watchdog over Motorola Mobility, the smartphone maker and Google takeover target, alleging it is shutting out rivals through aggressive [...] Read more ...
Services sector shrank this month along with manufacturing, tempering a wave of optimism after a new bailout deal for Greece struck this week [...] Read more ...
