No such thing as a free windfall

All chancellors are adept at giving with one hand and taking with another. Rachel Reeves is no exception. In last week’s Budget, she handed small businesses in England a seemingly attractive cut in th

“All government leaders know what to do. They just don’t know how to get re-elected if they do it.” Jean-Claude Juncker, the former president of the European Commission, said little of note in his pol

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Taxes are up – a lot: another £26bn a year by 2029, drawing millions more into higher tax bands. That’s almost as big as the £32bn raised in last autumn’s Budget, with its job-destroying increase on e

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