"The govt says a new crackdown on benefit fraudsters will raise £300 million a year"
Figures from the HMRC show that in 2022-23 the tax gap, the difference between tax owed & collected, was £39.8 billion
No, Rachel Reeves' Budget isn't the reason for rising gilt yields. And no, it's definitely not the same as the Liz Truss nonsense.
My latest for @spectator unites my old job as a miserable City journalist with my modern incarnation as a grumpy political commentator.
"We'll leave if you tax us," threaten the super rich.
So what? They are super rich because they own assets in Britain: our homes, our infrastructure, our high streets.
They can sell to someone else but they can't pick up our homes and businesses and move them to Monaco.
This dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric is further proof that the UK can’t rely on the Trump administration.
It’s in our national interest to rebuild trade and security ties with our allies in Europe.
One of the reasons I never partook in Eat Out To Help Out is because we had a circulating virus
Rishi Sunak could have set up, Get A Takeaway To Keep The Virus At Bay, which would equally have helped restaurants and cafes
But instead of supporting hospitality AND keeping covid away, he earned the label Dr Death the Chancellor
Never forget how Sunak and Johnson created a scheme without asking advice from scientists during the early part of the pandemic, how cases rose, and how more died - both men should be ashamed of how they disgracefully mismanaged the pandemic
BREAKING: NSO Group liable for #Pegasus hacking of @WhatsApp users.
Big win for spyware victims.
Big loss for NSO.
Bad time to be a spyware company.
Landmark case. Huge implications. 1/ 🧵
Higher dangerous pesticides found in UK food imports (including 48 banned in UK farming) following the Tory's post-Brexit 2022 decision to drop EU standards and align with lower Codex standards for maximum residue levels (MRLs) 👇
@FarmersWeekly
Reform have 5 MPs
On Thu #bbcqt had Farage on(30 odd times now), & today #PoliticsLive has Tice on
Lib Dem’s have 72 MPs….nothing.
Are the BBC now an official campaign network for Reform?
I always think of the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree as an annual reminder that Thatcher sold off our oil & gas fields in return for 171 billionaires & a broken Britain and Norway kept theirs and today have a trillion dollar reserve & the world's best standard of living.
📣 NEW today: “Golden opportunity” for civil services to learn from each other, as Singapore tops new Blavatnik Index of Public Administration.
Dive into the open source data from 120 public administrations worldwide here 👇
https://t.co/jExdILl35U