Rachel Reeves may need to raise £25 billion from tax increases for day-to-day spending in the budget, economists have warned. Even if the Chancellor changes fiscal rules this would do “almost nothing” to ease the challenge on public service funding, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said. Because of her promise to meet day-to-day spending…
The chancellor will need to raise taxes by £25bn if she wants to keep spending rising with national income, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). In its annual ‘Green Budget’ analysis, the IFS warned that the government would have to dramatically increase the £9bn of tax rises outlined in its manifesto to meet…
Washington — President Biden spoke about Hurricane Milton ahead of its landfall Wednesday night and assured Florida residents and others who have been impacted by the recent storms, “We’ve got your back.” He said his administration would offer support “for as long as it takes to rescue, recover and rebuild.” Mr. Biden said Milton is expected to…
Getty Images Taylor Swift held eight shows in London over the summer A police escort for Taylor Swift was not the result of “undue influence” from senior politicians attending the singer’s London concerts, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has said. The decision was made by senior police officers, although Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Mayor of…
Angela Rayner is set to announce her long-awaited workers’ rights package later this week, but all might not be as it was hoped. The Employment Rights Bill, a cornerstone of Labour’s manifesto offering to its base, has long been discussed as a landmark piece of legislation to be implemented upon seizing the keys to Downing…
When Ohio senator and Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance claimed Haitian immigrants had caused infectious-disease rates to “skyrocket” in Springfield, local health commissioner Chris Cook checked the records. They showed that in 2023, for example, there were four active tuberculosis cases in Ohio’s Clark County, which includes Springfield, up from three in 2022. HIV…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national security advisor said she has not seen evidence that federal politicians are “traitors” through their dealings with foreign governments. Speaking at the Hogue commission into foreign interference Wednesday, Nathalie Drouin suggested a recent report by a cross-partisan national security committee gave the mistaken impression that some MPs were betraying their…
Canada is adding another $15 million to its humanitarian aid package for Lebanon after an escalation in the conflict between Israel and the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah. International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen says the new money will help Canadian and international aid groups provide food, water, emergency health care and other assistance in Lebanon, though…
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper attended Taylor Swift’s concert in London for free using tickets provided to her husband by the megastar’s music label Universal, Sky News can reveal. Ms Cooper went as a guest of her husband, former Labour minister Ed Balls, who was given four tickets on 4 August, before Ms Swift’s shows in…
Book reveals details about relationship between Trump and Putin – CBS News Watch CBS News In the book “War,” veteran journalist Bob Woodard cites a Trump aide that says there were as many as seven phone calls between former President Donald Trump and Russia President Vladimir Putin in the period since Trump left the White…
