34+ min ago   (560+ words) Andy Burnham’s government is considering slowing planned minimum wage rises for young workers amid concerns that higher employment costs are making businesses more reluctant to hire them. Downing Street and the Treasury are examining whether the rapid increase in wages…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (383+ words) Surging government bond yields could force John Healey to deliver an “emergency Budget” in which the UK’s new Chancellor drives through a wave of spending cuts in a bid to bear down on Britain’s ballooning debt pile. UK gilt yields…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (591+ words) Andy Burnham and John Healey have been warned against using an “accounting trick” to ramp up borrowing given the volatility shaking bond markets and traders’ vigilance to extra gilt issuance. Analysts at Oxford Economics said that it looked likely the…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (454+ words) The number of parents grouping just under the £100,000 ‘tax trap’ salary in order to maintain access to free childcare will “grow dramatically”, tax researchers have warned, while some households continue to claim the benefit despite earning above the income threshold....

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (384+ words) The serious policy conversations this country needs to have on issues such as health, tax and growth are currently being held hostage by the fantasy-based class who never let a fact get in the way of a feeling, says Harry…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (266+ words) City AM In December 2009, ratings agency Fitch downgraded Greek sovereign debt from A- to BBB+ following a dramatic few weeks in which the state of the country’s public finances were laid bare. By February, riot police in Athens were firing stun…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (320+ words) Cast your eye over Nigel Farage’s CV and you realise he is a man who never seems far from danger. At the start of his career in 1982 he joined the notorious US investment bank Drexel as a commodities trader. Drexel…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (151+ words) Andy Burnham has said an uplift in defence spending will not come “at the expense” of benefits. During Prime Minister’s Questions, Burnham said “national security can’t come at the expense of social security” in response to attacks from Tory leader…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (665+ words) Christopher Rokos was Britain’s third largest individual taxpayer last year, handing over an estimated £330m. Now he’s moved to Greece and no British government seems to have a plan to replace that revenue, says Damian Pudner So, Chris Rokos is off…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (351+ words) Sadiq Khan has hit out at the “breathtaking arrogance” of Westminster council, as it pressed ahead with plans to crack down on so-called vertical drinking in the borough. The mayor of London has slammed the council for pushing ahead with…...