The rise and rise of british tax rates

The past may be a foreign country, but it often feels very familiar. The first edition of MoneyWeek appeared 25 years ago this week, on 4 November 2000, just as a huge stockmarket boom based on a pote

Controversy of the week Farage’s economic pitch When ...

With just a few weeks to go until Rachel Reeves unveils her Budget, speculation is reaching fever pitch. But small-business owners and managers worried that the chancellor is poised to hit them with h

“Has Rachel Reeves taken leave of her senses?” asks Annabel Denham in The Telegraph. Within the space of a week the chancellor has “veered from glum warnings” about Britain’s “miserable fiscal predica

The evidence is clear: the Tory Party’s plight can be blamed on the Liz Truss U-turn that exploded its claim to hard-headed competence

Are you tired of next month’s Budget yet? Governments fly so many kites these days it feels as though we have been through the whole thing twice in slow motion already. No wonder: last year the chance