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Express Politics16 Mar 2026

Rachel Reeves urged to scrap major tax ‘far more punishing’ than it looks

The Chancellor has been urged to scrap the "punishing" levy if she's serious about "boosting growth and supporting families".

Economy
Express Politics16 Mar 2026

Family firms face huge costs under Labour's inheritance tax hike - there's only one winner

OPINION - NICK SHOWERING: The only winners will be overseas investors and hedge funds as family firms that have taken generations to build are broken up

Economy
Express Politics16 Mar 2026

Rachel Reeves on brink as experts issue horror UK employment warning – '100,000 jobs lost'

Employers are grabbling with spiralling costs linked to tax rises and the conflict in the Middle East.

EconomyDefence
BBC Politics15 Mar 2026

Labour calls for tax investigation into Reform's Tice

It follows a newspaper report that Tice had avoided corporation tax worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

EconomyReform
BBC Politics15 Mar 2026

We will intervene on energy bills if necessary, says Miliband

Oil and gas prices have surged due to the US-Israel war in Iran, with fears over the cost of living.

EconomyDefence
BBC Politics15 Mar 2026

We will intervene on energy bills if necessary, says Miliband

Oil and gas prices have surged due to the US-Israel war in Iran, with fears over the cost of living.

EconomyDefence
The Guardian Politics15 Mar 2026

Labour has weapons in its arsenal to cushion the poorest from Iran war economic fallout | Heather Stewart

Timely end of two-child limit plus a healthy uptick in universal credit signals ‘lifechanging’ boost to Britons most exposed to ‘Trumpflation’ It doesn’t involve warships, drones or strategic oil stocks, but one of Labour’s most potent weapons for containing the economic aftershocks from the Iran war for the UK is about to be unleashed: the scrapping of the two-child limit. If the cost of essential goods spikes as a result of high oil prices it is the poorest households who will be the most expo

EconomyDefence
Express Politics15 Mar 2026

John Lewis titan's new project to stop Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves killing UK's economy

Sir Andy Street is in no doubt about what one thing Rachel Reeves should do to revive growth and rescue the UK from the horrors of youth unemployment.

Economy
Express Politics15 Mar 2026

Robert Jenrick reveals Reform's big new plan to get the UK economy firing again

Nigel Farage's shadow chancellor explains how he will end Britain's economic decline for good.

EconomyReform
Express Politics14 Mar 2026

Ed Miliband accused of squandering British 'treasure' and killing jobs in UK emergency

Labour is told the country faces an 'economic and security emergency' and is urged to go for 'maximum extraction' and save Aberdeen's North Sea industry

Economy
The Guardian Politics14 Mar 2026

Invisible datacentres and capricious chips: is UK’s AI bubble about to burst?

Datacentre investment boom is one of the biggest infrastructure gambles of this era, and Britain may be uniquely exposed Stargate was to be the world’s biggest AI investment: a $500bn infrastructure project to “secure American leadership in AI”. Never shy of hyperbole, its key backer, the ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, promised “massive economic benefit for the entire world” with facilities to help people “use AI to elevate humanity”. Now, OpenAI appears to be dropping out of a part of the deal – the exp

Economy
BBC Politics14 Mar 2026

Chancellor to offer support over rising heating oil costs

Rachel Reeves says the Treasury is also looking at "different options" to help households most vulnerable to soaring energy bills.

EconomyHousing