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Express Politics9 Jul 2026

New map shows areas in UK that 'suffer' most if Burnham makes major tax change on homes

Members of the public in certain areas will 'suffer' more than others under a major tax change being weighed up by Burnham

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Conservative Home9 Jul 2026

Sebastian Milbank: Young people need a better deal — but can Britain’s political class deliver it?

Currently we tax young people for getting an education that often doesn’t enhance their income, tax employers for hiring them, tax them for coupling up, ration the asset they most need to access adult life, and, when they fall into depression and despondence, reward them for giving up. The post Sebastian Milbank: Young people need a better deal — but can Britain’s political class deliver it? appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Guido Fawkes9 Jul 2026

Wealth Tax Campaigner Gary Stevenson: I’m Quitting

Gary Stevenson has only been doing this for five years. A surprising way to go for someone who declared just last week that he was “one of the best, if not the best, inequality economists in the world.” Unless of course this is another grift for Gary’s Egonomics…

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Guido Fawkes9 Jul 2026

REPORT: Leave ECHR and Introduce Comprehensive Free Speech Bill

Britain is in a “free speech recession” according to a new paper from the Prosperity Institute written by barrister Jon Holbrook. He contends that the Race Relations Act 1965, which first criminalised “stirring up racial hatred,” and the Public Order Act 1986 – which criminalised words “likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress” without any link…

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Conservative Home9 Jul 2026

Benjamin Elks: Local Authority debt has doubled since 2009

Councils purchasing commercial office blocks, hotels and shopping centres, building substantial property portfolios on the basis of low interest rates and overly optimistic investment returns has left an enormous burden on taxpayers. The post Benjamin Elks: Local Authority debt has doubled since 2009 appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Express Politics9 Jul 2026

Labour quietly slashes £460m from school budgets after giving teachers bumper pay rise

Stealth funding cut for education means teaching assistants and equipment could be cut to foot the gigantic bill

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Guido Fawkes8 Jul 2026

EXC: Labour Buys Quarter of a Million Pounds Worth of Jaguars Today

Labour is buying more Jaguars. Does one of them have John Prescott memorial livery? A new contract completed today and uncovered by the TaxPayers’ Alliance shows that the Government Car Service is purchasing £237,864.06 worth of Jaguars for delivery no later than 31st October 2026. Just in time for Burnham… Rhys Hurley, investigative lead at…

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Express Politics8 Jul 2026

Andy Burnham is coming for your money - brace yourself for autumn Budget from hell

Financial experts are warning of the pain Andy Burnham is set to inflict on taxpayers if he becomes PM.

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The Guardian Politics8 Jul 2026

Treasury yet to do due diligence on finding extra money for UK’s Nato spend

How to hit the 3.5% of GDP defence spending promise would be a matter for ‘the next prime minister’, MPs told The Treasury has as yet carried out no analysis of the trade-offs necessary for the UK to hit the 3.5% of GDP defence spending promise made to Nato, chief secretary Lucy Rigby has said. Under robust questioning in a joint session of the Treasury and defence select committees on Wednesday, Rigby repeatedly said that how to fund additional defence spending would be a matter for “the next

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The Guardian Politics8 Jul 2026

IMF upgrades UK growth forecast as fears over impact of Iran war diminish

July update projects GDP growth of 1% this year, making UK the third fastest-growing economy in the G7 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has upgraded its growth forecast for the UK, while leaving those for other G7 countries weaker or unchanged, amid hopes the economic impact of the Iran war may be less severe than feared. In a July update of its World Economic Outlook, which was finalised before the latest outbreak of hostilities in the Middle East, the Washington-based organisation project

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Express Politics8 Jul 2026

Rachel Reeves handed lifeline as inflation to slow faster than expected

Rate of price increases set to ease back to target levels quicker than previously thought

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Guido Fawkes8 Jul 2026

Burnham Policy Chief’s ‘Hobby Horse’ Plan to Hand Out ‘Free Basic Energy’ Costing Tens of Billions

The “hobby horse” of Andy Burnham’s transition policy chief is a “free basic energy” subsidy which would cost tens of billions of pounds per year. Here we go again… Figures who have worked with ex-energy and housing minister Miatta Fahnbulleh expect her to revive a policy she championed at the New Economics Foundation, of which…

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