BBC Politics10 Mar 2026
Calls grow for Reeves to ditch fuel tax hike over Iran
Reform UK has set out further detail of how it would cover the cost of scrapping September's planned rise.
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Express Politics10 Mar 2026
Stop Labour’s Retirement Tax - Your Express demands Rachel Reeves reverses cruel injustice
The Express calls on the Chancellor to reverse plans that will see more than one million of the poorest pensioners dragged into paying tax.
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Guido Fawkes10 Mar 2026
OBR: Oil Price Rise Could Hike Inflation by 1%
The OBR has said inflation could be 1% higher by the end of the year thanks to a long spike in energy prices. Just Reeves’s luck… David Miles, member of the OBR’s budget responsibility committee, told MPs in the Commons: “If there’s no change in the picture on prices from now on forward, we estimate…
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Guido Fawkes10 Mar 2026
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BBC Politics10 Mar 2026
Calls grow for Reeves to ditch fuel tax hike over Iran
Reform UK has set out further detail of how it would cover the cost of scrapping September's planned rise.
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Conservative Home10 Mar 2026
Emmanuel Igwe: There’s no such thing as unfunded tax cuts
For the Right to show it has not bought into the narrative of unfunded tax cuts it needs to be emphatic on the benefits of lower taxation as a vehicle for both collective and individual economic freedom and audacious in its pursuit to achieve it. The post Emmanuel Igwe: There’s no such thing as unfunded tax cuts appeared first on Conservative Home.
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Guido Fawkes10 Mar 2026
WATCH: Reeves Insists Fuel Prices Are Low Enough to Proceed With 5p Hike
Reeves has insisted just now in the House of Commons that the 5p fuel duty rise remains “under review” but poured cold water on calls to scrap the tax hike. She blamed the Tories and said oil prices are falling: “Well, the price today of of petrol is 8p per litre lower than if I…
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The Guardian Politics10 Mar 2026
Scrapping North Sea windfall tax would not reduce UK energy bills, say experts
Rachel Reeves said to be considering levy cuts for oil and gas firms, but economists say this would just fatten profits Easing the windfall tax on the North Sea would do nothing for hard-pressed consumers, and merely fatten the profits of oil and gas companies, economists and experts have told the Guardian. Rachel Reeves, the UK chancellor, is understood to be considering reductions to the energy profits levy, or potentially scrapping it and replacing it with a lower duty. Oil prices rose to $10
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The Guardian Politics10 Mar 2026
Reeves to face MPs’ grilling over cost-of-living pressures – UK politics live
Chancellor to take Treasury questions amid market turbulence linked to Middle East conflict As we mentioned in the opening post, Rachel Reeves is under pressure to cancel the planned increase in fuel duty due in September which will cause drivers to pay more for petrol and diesel as the government rolls back a temporary cut that was introduced in 2022 in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At her budget last year, Reeves said the 5p cut would be unwound between September 2026 an
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The Guardian Politics10 Mar 2026
The blistering speech that tells me Britain’s social care deadlock can finally be broken | Polly Toynbee
If anyone can convince politicians and public of the need to pay for a national care service, it’s Louise Casey. With her involved, I now have hope No government in my lifetime has been dealt a worse hand than Keir Starmer’s. Austerity-broken public services, an empty Treasury, a jittery bond market freaked out by Liz Truss and then stricken by the arrival of Trump 2.0 with his bully-tariffs. Now Britain’s ally is setting the Middle East on fire in a murderous war, exploding oil and gas prices.
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Conservative Home10 Mar 2026
Peter Franklin: Our shallow and simplistic debate over energy policy is a threat to national security
There are no easy solutions. When you hear someone urging the country to get real about the vulnerabilities of renewable energy, but without also acknowledging the fragilities of a hydrocarbon-based economy, the argument is either blinkered or made in bad faith. The post Peter Franklin: Our shallow and simplistic debate over energy policy is a threat to national security appeared first on Conservative Home.
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BBC Politics10 Mar 2026
Chris Mason: The cost of living is catapulted centre stage yet again
Labour faces pressure to stem the Middle East's impact on energy bills, writes the BBC's political editor.
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