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Conservative Home30 Mar 2026

Will Calverley: A bolder vision for Greater Essex

Why not an Essex Assembly? A strategic body for the whole county, with clear democratic accountability and the authority to make major decisions about transport, infrastructure, economic growth and regional development. The post Will Calverley: A bolder vision for Greater Essex appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics29 Mar 2026

Keir Starmer to launch local elections campaign with focus on cost of living

PM will also cite Iran war as reason to stick with Labour, as party adopts new slogan: ‘Pride in Britain’ Keir Starmer will say that a vote for Reform UK will put at risk progress Labour is making on the cost of living, arguing that Britain’s values are being tested in a volatile world. Launching the party’s local elections campaign with a new slogan: “Pride in Britain”, Starmer will urge voters to stay the course with Labour. A dire set of results are predicted for the party in Wales, Scotland

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The Guardian Politics29 Mar 2026

NHS to miss targets for cutting A&E wait times and performance in England

Exclusive: Health secretary’s pledges in doubt as analysis shows health service will not deliver key improvements The NHS is set to miss key targets to shorten waiting times for help at A&E, cancer care and planned hospital treatment, leaving millions of patients facing persistently long delays. The health service in England will not deliver a series of milestone improvements in its performance that ministers demanded it achieve by the time the fiscal year ends on Tuesday, a Guardian analysis of

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BBC Politics29 Mar 2026

Cut taxes on energy bills before giving bailouts, Badenoch says

The Tory leader refuses to rule out direct payments to households if bills spike but says this would come at a cost.

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BBC Politics29 Mar 2026

Cut taxes on energy bills before giving bailouts, Badenoch says

The Tory leader refuses to rule out direct payments to households if bills spike but says this would come at a cost.

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The Guardian Politics29 Mar 2026

War in Iran erodes the chancellor’s headroom and exposes our fragility | Heather Stewart

Rachel Reeves boasts of the £23bn she has built up against her fiscal rules but now she – or any future steward of the economy – has little space to manoeuvre It is with no pleasure that I must report a depressing domestic byproduct of the war in the Middle East: headroom chat is back. Of course, shifts in investors’ appetite for gilts – UK government bonds – are trivial, in the context of the bloodshed in Iran and beyond. Continue reading...

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Express Politics28 Mar 2026

Britons give scathing verdict on Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves's economic leadership

Pressure intensifies for bold action to tackle cost of living in wake of surge in voters saying the economy is in a bad state

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Express Politics27 Mar 2026

Tax cut warning for Rachel Reeves - even socialist Spain has helped motorists with this

The Chancellor is coming under mounting pressure to ease the burden on drivers as prices continue to rise at the pumps

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Express Politics27 Mar 2026

Rachel Reeves days are numbered as Chancellor - this huge mistake just sealed her fate

The Labour MP is under intense pressure as the Iran war impacts the UK economy

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Guido Fawkes27 Mar 2026

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Blasts Financial Times for “Explicitly False Story”

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has given the FT both barrels over their “explicitly false story” which claimed he had considered strengthening Treasury oversight of the Federal Reserve “in the Bank of England’s image“. Bessent described the paper as “tabloid trash”… “Despite my direct, on-the-record denial of ever having advocated, explored, or espoused the idea…

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Conservative Home27 Mar 2026

Azeem Ibrahim: We have thousands of citizens in a war zone – Here’s how we welcome them home and fix the country

A tax holiday and two new bonds could turn a geopolitical crisis into the domestic investment story of a generation. It is the simplest most elegant most patriotic economic policy a government could announce. The post Azeem Ibrahim: We have thousands of citizens in a war zone – Here’s how we welcome them home and fix the country appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics26 Mar 2026

Rachel Reeves urged to raise taxes on companies profiting from war on Iran

Charities say taxes should rise for banks, defence and energy companies which stand to make windfall profits Middle East crisis live Rachel Reeves is being urged to raise taxes on businesses generating “windfall” profits linked to the US-Israel war on Iran to fund emergency cost of living support for UK households. With the government under pressure to respond, a group of leading charities, campaigners and trade unions said the chancellor could raise billions by taxing “excess profits” linked

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