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...Last week, Jeremy Hunt said he would like to cut taxes in an autumn fiscal event “if we can”, despite warnings from the IMF about Britain’s fragile public finances. Read more here....
...Click the link below to read the article and then answer the questions: Rishi Sunak seeks to harvest political advantage with autumn poll strategy Question in the style of AQA Politics Paper 1 ‘The most...
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...Now try this Over the Christmas break, I took advantage of fellow family members offering to look after my toddler to hole up and read. Two arresting books stood out....
...political parties: · General Labour and Tories fall prey to optimism on tax and spend Mandates are overrated — Keir Starmer just needs the win Rishi Sunak seeks to harvest political advantage with autumn...
...The conversation happened in the comments below, so read on....
...For some reflections on how this way of budgeting leads to poor economic policymaking, read on....
...To put that into context, if a planning officer spent every minute of a 37.5 hour working week reading a 90,000 page application, it would take roughly 395 working days to read it all....
...It is a conundrum of which Hunt is acutely aware and that will sit at the heart of many of the policy measures in the Autumn Statement....
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...Spoiler I’ve written my FT column on this tonight so you can read my views in full in that....
...A Big Read ponders whether Disney boss Bob Iger can overcome streaming losses and pressure from investors to revive the company....
...The company said it expected to meet its target of reaching profitability in its streaming division by this autumn. Read more here...
...I’d encourage you to step back in time 10 years and read Henry Mance’s eulogy to Who-ology, which is as true today about this remarkable brand as it was back then....
...For autumn she likes to plant the amarine, a cross between a nerine and an amaryllis, good against sunny walls. In her compact and beautifully illustrated book she passes on many good lessons....
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...In November’s Autumn Statement, Hunt cut business and personal taxes by £20bn, but this did not stop the projected tax burden from continuing to rise. Read more on this story here....
...Hunt also said he wanted to reverse the real-terms declines in public investment that was pencilled into the Autumn Statement when it was possible. Read more here....
...Should the autumn statement mean that we change our central forecast for when the next election will be? The short answer is “no”. For the long answer, read on....
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