Rishi Sunak will have to slash public spending or hike taxes to fill huge black hole in government’s books after his latest £30billion coronavirus mini-budget, warns former Justice Secretary David Gauke Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled ‘plan for jobs’ which could cost up to £30billion It is the latest in a number of interventions to dampen … Read more
Primark ‘rejects Rishi Sunak’s £30million bonus for bringing back staff from furlough’ amid pressure on other firms to shun the payouts Primark expected to reject £30million bonus for bringing back furloughed staff Rishi Sunak announced £9billion payments for firms in mini-Budget last week Chancellor admitted funding will go to many businesses already up and running … Read more
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is planning to slash red tape and taxes as part of a post-Brexit ‘economic revolution’. Mr Sunak wants to completely overhaul planning laws and offer wide-ranging tax cuts just a year after the UK becomes fully independent from the European Union in December, as reported by the Sunday Telegraph. He is also … Read more
Andrew Twentyman makes the best pizza in Leigh in Greater Manchester. But he’s a working man who doesn’t like Jeremy Corbyn. And for that he had to be destroyed. ‘Can you imagine what state we’d be in if Jeremy Corbyn had been in charge of all this?’ the former Labour supporter told The Guardian newspaper … Read more
Boris Johnson was today accused of hypocrisy over plans to get Britain into shape by banning buy-one-get-one-free deals on junk food and stopping supermarkets from selling sweets near tills in his war on obesity. In an attempt to make the nation slimmer, Number 10 is also expected to re-consider making it mandatory to put calorie … Read more
Strictly’s Kristina Rihanoff slams Chancellor Rishi Sunak after claiming she’s had ‘zero help’ from the government as a self-employed dance teacher during COVID-19 crisis By Laura Fox For Mailonline Published: 16:54 BST, 9 July 2020 | Updated: 00:28 BST, 10 July 2020 Strictly Come Dancing ex-pro Kristina Rihanoff has slammed Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak … Read more
Rishi Sunak‘s half-price meals announcement has already been picked apart by savvy diners plotting to rinse the scheme by going out for a ‘safari supper’. Customers plan to avoid straying beyond the £10 cap on the Chancellor’s 50 per cent discount program by hopping between restaurants for each course. People pointed out that if a … Read more
Obesity campaigners have savaged the government’s plan to offer cut-price meals branding it a ‘green light for junk food’. Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced yesterday up to £10 a head will be cut off the bills of people eating out in August. But as names like Burger King confirmed themselves as part of the scheme obesity … Read more
Rishi Sunak admits jobs WILL be lost despite latest massive ‘mini-Budget’ bailout as he begs Britons to ‘relearn’ the habits of eating out and dismisses claims his ‘bonus’ for firms bring back furloughed staff is a £9bn gimmick By James Tapsfield, Political Editor For Mailonline Published: 07:56 BST, 9 July 2020 | Updated: 07:58 BST, … Read more
No Chancellor in modern times has faced the looming horror of mass unemployment that scarred this country and the world economy in the 1930s. But this is precisely what Rishi Sunak’s unprecedented measures yesterday were designed to stave off. As what has been called the ‘first phase’ of the pandemic comes to an end, the … Read more
HENRY DEEDES: A mere Summer Statement this might have been, but really it was so much more than that. It was a one-time pitch to save our frazzled economy…
The magic money tree… shaken by a Tory! Astonished former Chancellor NORMAN LAMONT gives his verdict on Rishi Sunak’s mini-Budget By Norman Lamont, Former Chancellor, For The Daily Mail Published: 22:36 BST, 8 July 2020 | Updated: 00:37 BST, 9 July 2020 As a former Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1990s, I can honestly … Read more
William Gladstone’s first Budget speech as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1853 lasted nearly five hours, and cemented his political reputation. He laid the ground for tax and tariff reductions which boosted the British economy. Rishi Sunak’s Summer Statement yesterday — not a proper Budget — lasted less than half an hour, and contained imaginative … Read more