So many chunks of broadcast eaten up whining about the tough choices faced by privately educated households, so few chunks used to explain that big employer NICs hikes tend to = lower pay growth and fewer new jobs.
The right could have focused on attacking employer NICs as a tax on jobs. Instead, they're focusing on billionaires upset about paying IHT on their farms and private schools fees. Labour will be fine with that.
So petty. I reckon we should improve the UK’s relationship with Europe but I don’t think offering tax breaks for London’s international schools does anything to achieve that.
‘48% believe Reeves should prioritise cutting taxes, 43% want more money for public services’ there’ll be many who have both in their top two because the UK is forever this:
EXCL: Polling by @Savanta_UK shows just 20% of voters believe Budget will be good for them.
And 48% believe Reeves should prioritise cutting taxes, while 43% would rather see more money for public services.
It’s all in the HuffPost UK Budget preview ⬇️
https://t.co/9NOIvPIh3G
NEW
Treasury effectively confirms debt rule loosening, by announcing its new “guardrails” to channel capital spending goes to a 10 year pipeline of major projects that generate economic returns that will help “depoliticise infrastructure”
https://t.co/Y8oCyteE2z
On Wednesday night, the BBC will airing the nuclear apocalypse film 'Threads' for the fourth time ever.
It was aired originally in 1984, then repeated in 1985 and was last broadcast by on BBC Four in 2003.
While prepping to interview Boris Johnson tomorrow, by mistake I sent our briefing notes to him in a message meant for my team. That obviously means it’s not right for the interview to go ahead. It’s very frustrating, and there’s no point pretending it’s anything other than embarrassing and disappointing, as there are plenty of important questions to be asked. But red faces aside, honesty is the best policy. See you on Sunday.
It does not mean what it used to mean
More than half of people who do professional jobs - managers, doctors, lawyers - say they are “working class”
People love talking up their origins - but a quarter of people whose *parents* did middle class jobs say they’re working class