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Guido Fawkes5 Mar 2026

Victory for British Taxpayers as Collapse of Chagos Deal Stops £165 Million Payment to Mauritius

There’s been a notable change of tone in Port Louis since the eruption of the Iran conflict. Mauritian commentators are starting to admit Starmer’s Chagos deal is fully dead… According to media outlet DeFi: “While the process was progressing very well, with the adoption of the Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory…

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Express Politics4 Mar 2026

Iran war puts UK on the brink of total economic meltdown – it's bad news for Rachel Reeves

Chancellor set to face mounting pressure to support families walloped by price rises in the wake of the deadly conflict

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Guido Fawkes4 Mar 2026

Lord Frost Steps Down as IEA Director General

Lord Frost is stepping down as Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs. He took on the role just two months ago… He said this morning: “The Institute of Economic Affairs is a great organisation which has a real capacity to influence the debate about Britain’s economic future.  I regret that personal commitments mean that…

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Express Politics4 Mar 2026

Kemi Badenoch slams Rachel Reeves in blistering PMQs attack: 'Priorities all wrong!'

Tory leader takes furious aim at the Chancellor's economic choices during fiery Commons clash

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Express Politics4 Mar 2026

State pensioners given £12,570 warning as 600,000 hit as Rachel Reeves freeze confirmed

The Office for Budget Responsibility has published its forecast for Chancellor Rachel Reeves's spring statement

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Conservative Home4 Mar 2026

Newslinks for Wednesday 4th March 2026

Starmer is no Churchill, says Trump as tensions rise | Reeves raid pushes taxes to record high | Net zero is the answer to Middle East energy crisis, says Business Secretary The post Newslinks for Wednesday 4th March 2026 appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home4 Mar 2026

The unreality of Labour’s rosy picture of an economy that can’t, in fact, pay for our defence

Churchill fought a war having argued for years that Britain was economically and militarily unprepared.  Starmer is trying not to fight a war arguing via his Chancellor that never before has so much been promised for defence. For so little return when it matters, it seems. The post The unreality of Labour’s rosy picture of an economy that can’t, in fact, pay for our defence appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Conservative Home4 Mar 2026

Mel Stride: Really, is that it? All we got was a surrender statement from a spent Chancellor out of ideas

Realism requires backbone. This government has none. Winter fuel payments: U-turn. Welfare reform: U-turn. The two-child benefit cap: U-turn. Farm taxes, family business taxes, pubs - all U-turns. Whenever pressure mounts, this government folds. The post Mel Stride: Really, is that it? All we got was a surrender statement from a spent Chancellor out of ideas appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics3 Mar 2026

The Guardian view on Labour’s migration gamble: Denmark is no template | Editorial

Extending settlement waits risks deepening labour shortages while misreading public concern about migration’s economic and demographic realities The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, is expected this week to press ahead with plans to make it harder for migrants to gain settled status, extending the wait from five to 10 years. She will not change tack despite Labour’s crushing byelection defeat to the Greens. This is a mistake. Ms Mahmood argues that Denmark’s Social Democrats curbed inflows to pr

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The Guardian Politics3 Mar 2026

The Guardian view on Rachel Reeves’s spring statement: stability cannot mean sacrificing living standards | Editorial

An energy shock from war in the Gulf will expose the limits of rigid fiscal rules. The real question is who absorbs the loss: the state, firms or households? The war in the Middle East has sent oil and gas prices soaring – and Britain remains deeply exposed to global energy markets. If the shocks persist they will feed directly into household bills, business costs and inflation. On Tuesday, the Office for Budget Responsibility released projections that were finalised before the US-Israeli strike

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The Guardian Politics3 Mar 2026

What will Rachel Reeves’s spring forecast mean for household finances?

The chancellor promised more money in people’s pockets, but the Iran crisis makes steeper inflation a pressing worry Rachel Reeves used her spring statement to insist her economic policies are working and things are looking up for household finances after the cost of living crisis. The chancellor trumpeted that by the next general election “people will be over £1,000 a year better off”. But against the backdrop of war in the Middle East, financial experts warned that the new economic forecasts p

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The Guardian Politics3 Mar 2026

‘It’s no news just when we wanted some’: Business leaders react to spring statement

Amid global volatility, Rachel Reeves tried to project calm with a low-key forecast. But business owners have their doubts Rachel Reeves gave a deliberately low-key spring forecast on Tuesday, in an attempt to project calm amid volatility abroad and after repeated tax rising budgets. But for some business owners struggling with rising costs, a lack of policy announcements this time around was a disappointment. Continue reading...

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