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Guido Fawkes16 Jun 2026

International Report Calling for Global Wealth Cap Was Part-Funded by British Taxpayers

A report by a group of international leftist economists calling for an end to global growth was part-funded by the British taxpayer. Of course it was… Thomas Piketty, increasingly deranged ‘inequality economist’ and darling of social democrats everywhere, penned The Global Justice Report this month which called for GDP per capita in wealthy countries to be…

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The Guardian Politics16 Jun 2026

UK will have to ‘dial back’ military plans without more funding, says chief of defence

Rich Knighton tells Lords committee he is ‘most concerned’ about impact on day-to-day military activities Britain will have to “dial back” on military operations and exercises in the next few years if the Ministry of Defence (MoD) does not receive extra funding from Downing Street and the Treasury, the UK’s most senior military officer has said. Rich Knighton, the chief of the defence staff, told a Lords committee that he was “most concerned” about the budgets for day-to-day activities – in his

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Guido Fawkes16 Jun 2026

Streeting Sets Out His “Economic Blueprint” for Britain

“Make me Chancellor, Andy”…

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Express Politics16 Jun 2026

Major update on petition to stop failed asylum seekers getting £40,000 in taxpayer cash

The online document is nearing a significant milestone as people vent their fury at the policy

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The Guardian Politics16 Jun 2026

Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax isn’t far off Labour’s housing policy. Not that you’ll ever hear Starmer say it | Anna Minton

The UK has its own progressive policies such as the second home and ‘mansion’ taxes. So why isn’t the PM shouting it from the rooftops? In April, to mark the day on which Americans are expected to file their taxes, the New York mayor, Zohran Mamdani, filmed himself on Billionaires’ Row, an enclave of super-tall apartment buildings just south of Central Park. When he took office, he said, he would tax the rich, and now, outside the hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin’s $238m penthouse, he was read

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Express Politics16 Jun 2026

Treasury response to plan to double state pensioner tax allowance to £25,140

MPs called for the state pension tax threshold to be doubled from £12,570, piling pressure on Rachel Reeves

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Conservative Home16 Jun 2026

Hannah Campbell: A million youngsters with out of work with no prospects is not just a social tragedy it’s an economic one

We need a skills system that values routes into work as highly as routes into education. The test of government is not how often ministers talk about opportunity. It is how many opportunities they help create. The post Hannah Campbell: A million youngsters with out of work with no prospects is not just a social tragedy it’s an economic one appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics16 Jun 2026

The old ‘warfare v welfare’ arguments are back – but it’s Britain’s real duty to spend on both | Frances Ryan

While we need protecting from foreign enemies, slashing benefits in favour of defence will make millions less, not more, safe As the row over the military budget grows, Keir Starmer has spent much of the past few days insisting he’s spending huge sums of taxpayer money on defence. Every single government department has made cuts to fund next month’s defence investment plan (Dip), the prime minister promised, resulting in “the biggest sustained increase since the cold war”. On Sunday, the culture

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BBC Politics15 Jun 2026

Reform pledges new tax on hiring foreign workers

The party says the move would allow it to reverse last year's National Insurance rise for British workers.

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The Guardian Politics15 Jun 2026

If the UK wants to rejoin the European Union, it first needs to understand it | Timothy Garton Ash

A full return will require a marathon of democratic persuasion, on the continent as much as in Britain. For one side holds most of the cards As Britain approaches the 10th anniversary of its vote to leave the EU, the British are beginning to debate rejoining what they call Europe. But, as in most previous British debates about “Europe”, this is Europe with the Europe left out. The discussion is all about what would be best for Britain economically and the British politics of getting there. Littl

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BBC Politics15 Jun 2026

Reform pledges new tax on hiring foreign workers

The party says the move would allow it to reverse last year's National Insurance rise for British workers.

Economy
The Guardian Politics15 Jun 2026

Settler products from occupied Palestine sold to Europe as Israeli, investigation finds

Shipments deliberately mislabelled to bolster settler economy, says non-profit Global Echo Israeli exporters to Europe regularly hide the origin of produce grown in occupied Palestine to qualify for unlawful tax breaks that bolster the settler economy, a rights group investigation has found. The legal non-profit Global Echo analysed more than 30,000 export documents for thousands of Israeli shipments to the UK and EU over eight years. Continue reading...

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