Business
Healey poised to overturn cut to cash Isa allowance in first budget
Chancellor’s predecessor Rachel Reeves had planned to reduce allowance from £20,000 to £12,000 a year from Apr...
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Technology
My advice for Burnham’s first budget? Hit the banks – and hit them hard
Bankers have barely begun to repay the billions they cost the country after 2008. In this PM they may have met...
Politics
Tories dismiss PM’s budget ‘everyday fixes’ as little more than ‘cheaper gherkins’, and ‘an insult to families’ – UK politics live
Removing tariffs on more than 100 products, including gherkins and baked beans, was one of five measures annou...
Business
Number of UK businesses in financial distress ‘at two-decade high’
Administrator BTG says 738,144 firms struggling as calls grow for more support for private sector in budget
Health
Burnham pledges £900m for homelessness amid drive to end rough sleeping
Downing Street to almost double funding with further £432m in this week’s budget
Politics
UK poised to miss reduced aid spending target of 0.3% of national income
Calculations from the Center for Global Development say spending next year is likely to be £410m less than ant...
Home
Can curry nights and canny advisers help Healey deliver a budget for everyday people?
The chancellor has promised ‘breathing space’ for households and small businesses but global events cannot be...
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Is London really the most-taxed city? Banks accused of cherrypicking data
Lobby group’s figures, shared with John Healey, are misleading as they do not include major rival Paris, say c...
Business
UK high street bosses urge chancellor to cut cost of employing young people
Retailers call on John Healey to raise national insurance contributions threshold in his first budget
Business
IMF raises UK growth forecast as economist says Healey should ‘stay the course’
Fund upgrades UK’s GDP growth forecast for 2026 to 1.3%, but says it is likely to edge down next year
Business
Barclays to cut 5,000 jobs as bank’s bosses hail AI productivity advances
Equating to the loss of 5% of its 93,000 global staff, job cuts come as bank announces jump in quarterly profi...
Business
A modest increase in bank taxes is not the end of the world for lenders
As long as Healey doesn’t go overboard, a small turn on surcharge dial will not seriously undermine flow of ca...