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Cut taxes on energy bills before giving bailouts, Badenoch says
The Tory leader refuses to rule out direct payments to households if bills spike but says this would come at a cost.
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BBC Politics29 Mar 2026
Cut taxes on energy bills before giving bailouts, Badenoch says
The Tory leader refuses to rule out direct payments to households if bills spike but says this would come at a cost.
Economy
The Guardian Politics29 Mar 2026
War in Iran erodes the chancellor’s headroom and exposes our fragility | Heather Stewart
Rachel Reeves boasts of the £23bn she has built up against her fiscal rules but now she – or any future steward of the economy – has little space to manoeuvre It is with no pleasure that I must report a depressing domestic byproduct of the war in the Middle East: headroom chat is back. Of course, shifts in investors’ appetite for gilts – UK government bonds – are trivial, in the context of the bloodshed in Iran and beyond. Continue reading...
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Express Politics28 Mar 2026
Britons give scathing verdict on Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves's economic leadership
Pressure intensifies for bold action to tackle cost of living in wake of surge in voters saying the economy is in a bad state
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Express Politics27 Mar 2026
Tax cut warning for Rachel Reeves - even socialist Spain has helped motorists with this
The Chancellor is coming under mounting pressure to ease the burden on drivers as prices continue to rise at the pumps
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Express Politics27 Mar 2026
Rachel Reeves days are numbered as Chancellor - this huge mistake just sealed her fate
The Labour MP is under intense pressure as the Iran war impacts the UK economy
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Guido Fawkes27 Mar 2026
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Blasts Financial Times for “Explicitly False Story”
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has given the FT both barrels over their “explicitly false story” which claimed he had considered strengthening Treasury oversight of the Federal Reserve “in the Bank of England’s image“. Bessent described the paper as “tabloid trash”… “Despite my direct, on-the-record denial of ever having advocated, explored, or espoused the idea…
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Conservative Home27 Mar 2026
Azeem Ibrahim: We have thousands of citizens in a war zone – Here’s how we welcome them home and fix the country
A tax holiday and two new bonds could turn a geopolitical crisis into the domestic investment story of a generation. It is the simplest most elegant most patriotic economic policy a government could announce. The post Azeem Ibrahim: We have thousands of citizens in a war zone – Here’s how we welcome them home and fix the country appeared first on Conservative Home.
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The Guardian Politics26 Mar 2026
Rachel Reeves urged to raise taxes on companies profiting from war on Iran
Charities say taxes should rise for banks, defence and energy companies which stand to make windfall profits Middle East crisis live Rachel Reeves is being urged to raise taxes on businesses generating “windfall” profits linked to the US-Israel war on Iran to fund emergency cost of living support for UK households. With the government under pressure to respond, a group of leading charities, campaigners and trade unions said the chancellor could raise billions by taxing “excess profits” linked
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Express Politics26 Mar 2026
Rachel Reeves has made the UK weaker when the world is more dangerous than ever
The Chancellor stands accused of pushing up borrowing, spending and taxesand delivering stagnant growth.
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Express Politics26 Mar 2026
Rachel Reeves is desperate to blame Iran or Donald Trump - but she destroyed our economy
Today's OECD forecast will mask Labour's homegrown woes - but with 33,000 hospitality businesses shut since the first budget, Tehran is not to blame.
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BBC Politics26 Mar 2026
Tories launch Welsh election campaign promising lower taxes
Welsh Conservative leader Darren Millar said only his party offered Welsh voters "real, credible, positive change".
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