Yahoo News No 10 confirms Rishi Sunak has never paid tax penalty amid Nadhim Zahawi row
Number 10 has said Rishi Sunak has never paid a tax penalty as the row over Nadhim Zahawi's tax affairs continues.
Number 10 has said Rishi Sunak has never paid a tax penalty as the row over Nadhim Zahawi's tax affairs continues.
The global economy is hardly booming, but the UK is at the bottom of the pile of developed nations for two clear reasons, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
MORE than 7,000 council workers look set to be made redundant as a result of Scottish Government budget cuts, according to a leaked paper.
Nicola Sturgeon must scrap her “discredited” plans for a National Care Service and give the £1.3 billion saved to councils, the Tories said ahead of a key vote on the Scottish Budget on Thursday.
JOHN Swinney has told MSPs that he is “wrestling with an estimated overspend” of approximately £100 million.
The Bank of England announced another “forceful” increase in interest rates Thursday, saying it was too soon to declare victory against inflation that has slowed slightly but is still fueling a cost-of-living crisis, public-sector strikes and fears of recession. The bank raised its key rate by half a percentage point, to 4%, resisting the temptation to follow the U.S. Federal Reserve in easing its response to the crisis. The British central bank has approved four straight increases of a half-point or more since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered sharp rises in food and energy prices.
Bank of England’s tenth interest rates rise in row will impact homeowners and house buying hopefuls
NICOLA Sturgeon warned the Scottish Tories not to conflate the Gender Recognition Reform (GRR) Bill with the debate over Isla Bryson as the First Minister faced further questions over the trans prisoner’s gender.
Iceland was also named the supermarket having the highest price rises in the year leading up to November 2022.
The British pound has rallied a bit during the trading session on Wednesday, as we are awaiting the FOMC announcement.
35% of Canadian homeowners can withstand today's interest rates for 10 months before being forced to sell, the survey found.
Hundreds of thousands of borrowers on tracker mortgages will see an immediate increase in their mortgage bills, following the Bank of England's decision to up interest rates to 4pc this week.
The Scottish Government’s plan for tax and spending cleared its first parliamentary hurdle on Thursday.
Labour said the warning underlines the need for a ‘more productive’ relationship with Brussels following Britain’s withdrawal from the EU.
British Gas has announced it will stop applying for court warrants to enter customers’ homes and fit prepayment meters.
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America's two biggest entitlement programs - which make up about a third of the federal budget - are all but certain to remain at the center of the debt ceiling debate, at least when Democrats are speaking.
Mr Sunak, in an interview with Piers Morgan for TalkTV, insisted he could deliver the five priorities he has set for the nation.
Jeremy Hunt said he will "resist the urge" to cut taxes now in order to protect the fight against inflation as he backed the Bank of England's decision to increase interest rates.
Chinese hotels and restaurants are seeking employees amid demand recovery in the services sector after the end of Beijing's zero-COVID protocols, with a survey by a leading recruiter showing a surge in job openings in the hospitality industry. During the first six days of work after China's Lunar New Year holiday, job openings in the hotel and catering sectors surged 40% from the same period a year earlier, according to a survey published on Friday by Zhaopin, one of the county's biggest recruitment firms. Passenger vehicle and freight truck drivers and airplane and train crews are also badly needed, with job openings jumping by 85.2% over the same period, due to busy transport and logistics sectors following China's post-COVID reopening.
The inflation problem isn't going away, and that could spark a stock market sell-off in the second-half of the year, a Credit Suisse strategist warned.