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...“Not everybody loves this perhaps, but that [extra spending] dampens near-term profitability. It boosts long-term profitability,” said Schreiber....
...A post-pandemic rise of 850,000 in the number of people not working due to long-term sickness was economically unsustainable, unaffordable and unfair on taxpayers, the prime minister said — as well as fuelling...
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...A 2019 Centre for Policy Studies paper estimated an additional 1.9mn renters could access a long-term mortgage. Other reforms could also play a role....
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...On Friday Gareth Davies, exchequer secretary, said the government wanted to “remove the unfairness” of national insurance altogether, but said the “long-term ambition” could take “several parliaments”....
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...Yet Tagg believes the approach, if more widely adopted, will lead to better hires and more efficiencies in the long term....
...Hunt signalled that his “long-term ambition” was to abolish employee national insurance altogether, a pledge likely to be central to a Tory general election pitch....
...Downing Street added the plan was “a long-term ambition” to eliminate national insurance contributions by workers, which have been cut from 12 per cent to 8 per cent by Hunt....
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...He made a distinction between private capital groups that buy insurance companies as a long-term balance sheet investment, and situations where the insurer is owned through a private equity fund with a shorter...
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...to make equal pay claims to these groups....
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