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Express Politics28 Apr 2026

UK county home to famous seaside town makes major decision on tax for tourists

The local mayor said a visitor levy would 'only punish the very entrepreneurs who drive our economy and threaten the jobs they provide'.

Economy
Guido Fawkes28 Apr 2026

WATCH: Reeves Fails to Deny Private Rent Freeze Proposals

Rachel Reeves has hinted at her plans for a one-year rent freeze in the Commons: “This Government have already taken action to reduce the cost of living and to bear down on inflation with the changes around energy prices, around fuel duty, prescription charges and rail fares, and I will do everything in my power…

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Guido Fawkes28 Apr 2026

Every Time Labour Promised Not to Introduce Rent Controls

Rachel Reeves – who is fighting to keep her job post-May elections – is now plotting a one-year rent freeze on private sector rented homes excluding new builds. Part of a “cost of living package” which will obviously only raise rents… Labour has constantly said it would not impose rent controls, be they stabilisation or…

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The Guardian Politics28 Apr 2026

Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules buffer should be ‘significantly larger’, say peers

Lord committee says chancellor and recent predecessors have allowed themselves too little room for manoeuvre Business live – latest updates Rachel Reeves should aim to run a “significantly larger” buffer against her fiscal rules, according to a report from a House of Lords committee that says the UK’s public debt is on an unsustainable trajectory. The chancellor raised taxes at last year’s budget in order to more than double the “headroom”, or buffer, against her fiscal rules to £22bn – some o

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The Guardian Politics27 Apr 2026

Mandelson and McSweeney: a partnership forged on winning and crushing the Labour left

Former chief of staff who helped bring Mandelson out of Labour shadows for Washington post to be questioned by MPs on vetting process Like many Labour stories, Peter Mandelson’s and Morgan McSweeney’s both start at Lambeth council. Mandelson was in his mid-20s. It was 1979, and he was a new councillor under the leadership of “Red” Ted Knight. He came to despise the local party, describing the Lambeth Labour party’s leadership as “contributing very little to the economic development of south Lond

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The Guardian Politics27 Apr 2026

Rachel Reeves considering rent freeze to limit Iran war fallout

Exclusive: Sources say chancellor is examining exceptional measures to protect household budgets Rachel Reeves is considering imposing a one-year rent freeze on private sector homes amid growing alarm in government about the impact of the Iran war on voters’ budgets. Landlords in England would be banned from raising rents for a limited period of time under the proposals, which are being debated within government as part of a major cost of living package to be launched in the coming weeks. Conti

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The Guardian Politics27 Apr 2026

What the parties promise Welsh voters on the NHS, schools, childcare and tax

Labour, Plaid Cymru, Reform, the Greens, the Tories and the Lib Dems set out competing plans but offer little detail on how they would pay for them The parties most likely to win the Senedd election next month offer radically different futures for Wales, but all six are facing criticism for not being “upfront” in their manifestos about the fiscal challenges the next Welsh government will face. Labour, Plaid Cymru, Reform UK, the Green party, the Conservative party, and the Liberal Democrats are

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Conservative Home27 Apr 2026

Tim Dier: The case for a deliverable Conservatism is being made right now – in Madrid

Low tax policies have attracted businesses and affluent residents to the Region of Madrid from high tax regions such as Catalonia, and further afield from other countries, too. The very kind of immigration we were told our points-based system would attract to the UK. The post Tim Dier: The case for a deliverable Conservatism is being made right now – in Madrid appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Guido Fawkes27 Apr 2026

Starmer to Chair ‘Emergency’ Cobra Meeting on Economic Impact of War

A defiant Starmbot has regurgitated the government’s talking points on Iran, warning at the Usdaw union’s conference that the “economic consequences could be with us for some time“. Luckily he will chair an ’emergency’ Cobra meeting tomorrow (so urgent it can wait at least a day) in which he will be “bringing in people from…

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Express Politics27 Apr 2026

Rachel Reeves is desperate for your dosh – pips are now screaming in despair

OPINION - DUNCAN BARKES: The British taxpayer is being ripped off on a monumental scale.

Economy
Conservative Home27 Apr 2026

David Gauke: It was worse in the 1970s but it can certainly feel like history repeating itself

We know now that the country got out of its 1970s malaise thanks to a government committed to fiscal discipline and a market economy.  Were matters worse in the seventies compared to today? Yes.  Will matters resolve themselves as positively?  Not necessarily. The post David Gauke: It was worse in the 1970s but it can certainly feel like history repeating itself appeared first on Conservative Home.

Economy
The Guardian Politics26 Apr 2026

UK urged to deploy EU-style ‘trade bazooka’ against Trump’s tariffs

‘Inadequate economic security’ is putting growth and jobs at risk, says British Chambers of Commerce UK business leaders have called on the government to build an EU-style “trade bazooka” to protect Britain’s economic interests in response to the latest tariff threats from Donald Trump. As transatlantic tensions rise, the British Chambers of Commerce said the UK’s “inadequate economic security” was putting growth and jobs at risk. Continue reading...

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