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Guido Fawkes17 Jun 2026

Inflation Remains at 2.8% in May

New figures from the Office for National Statistics show inflation did not change in May. Sticking at 2.8%… Motor fuel prices rose by 24.6% – the ONS says “food and non-alcoholic beverages made the largest, partially offsetting, downward contribution.” On the producer side the ONS records input prices rising by 8.7% in the year to…

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The Guardian Politics17 Jun 2026

Capital gains tax: more people have to pay, so here’s what you need to know

The rules have changed and more taxpayers are being pulled into the net, not only the wealthy Less generous rules have turned capital gains tax into a “cash machine” for the government, with income from the levy soaring by almost 80% to £24bn in the last tax year – equivalent to well over £800 a household. A series of changes to the way the charge works means more people are being pulled into the capital gains tax (CGT) net, and not only the wealthy. And, given the scale of the change, this week

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Conservative Home17 Jun 2026

John Redwood: Ten years on, this Government is still trying to reverse Brexit – not harness it’s opportunities

There are so many opportunities to Brexit if only we would cut tax rates and remove damaging regulations.  Going back in would be ruinously expensive and would lower our growth rate with all the extra regulatory and tax burdens it would impose.  The post John Redwood: Ten years on, this Government is still trying to reverse Brexit – not harness it’s opportunities appeared first on Conservative Home.

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BBC Politics16 Jun 2026

UK forces face operational cuts without more cash, defence chief warns

It comes as ex-defence secretary John Healey says the UK's enemies "do not follow timetables set by the Treasury".

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Express Politics16 Jun 2026

Andy Burnham is already terrifying financial markets with leadership election imminent

Andy Burnham's track record of higher spending and taxes could spook the markets and crash the pound should he win Makerfield and become PM, experts warn.

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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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