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...Michael Howard remains the most influential home secretary since Roy Jenkins, who was in the post from 1974 to 1976: on criminal justice policy and prisons in particular....
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...Roy Jenkins, a former UK finance minister and EU Commission president, once described inheritance tax as a “voluntary levy,” paid only by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the tax authorities...
...Obviously, Roy Jenkins' point was that actually, Tony Blair was so far ahead that he could have spent the whole time juggling the Ming vase and still won. One of Labour's... Keir can't do that. No....
...But there is a strong case now for keeping the tax perk, for much the same reason as when it was first brought in by then-chancellor Roy Jenkins in 1969 to make UK debt “more attractive to investors and...
...The increases would raise the UK tax burden to its highest level — 35 per cent of gross domestic product in 2025-26 — since Roy Jenkins was the Labour party chancellor in the late 1960s....
...Roy Jenkins, the former Labour chancellor, described IHT as “a largely voluntary levy, paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue”....
...If he’s not careful, Sunak will go down in history as another Ken Clarke or Roy Jenkins — a talented chancellor who couldn’t make it to the top job....
...Jenkins put it....
...The OBR report said: “The tax rises announced in this Budget increase the tax burden from 34.0 per cent to 35.0 per cent of GDP in 2025-26, its highest level since Roy Jenkins was chancellor in the late...
...When the subject of inheritance tax is raised, commentators often reprise the quip made by former chancellor Roy Jenkins....
...In 1976, the candidates to be Labour leader and therefore prime minister were “Denis [Healey], Michael Foot, Jim Callaghan, Tony Crosland, Roy Jenkins, and Tony Benn....
...But it was with her departure from Labour to found the Social Democratic party in 1981 — with her fellow “Gang of Four” members Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Bill Rodgers — that she made her biggest mark on...
...Nilanjana Roy makes a persuasive case for why we need a novel approach to truth-telling: specifically, to read more stories of democracies under threat to counteract the “fictions” of their authoritarian...
...Williams — who formed the “Gang of Four” along with David Owen, Roy Jenkins and Bill Rodgers — won the Crosby by-election for the SDP in 1981....
...His planned tax rises will in 2025-26 leave Britain with its highest tax burden — 35 per cent of GDP — since Roy Jenkins was Labour chancellor in the late 1960s....
...The increases will raise the UK tax burden to its highest level since Roy Jenkins was the Labour party chancellor in the late 1960s....
...To achieve this, taxes are forecast to reach 35 per cent of GDP in 2025-26, the highest level since the late 1960s, when Roy Jenkins was chancellor....
...I was privileged as a European Commission civil servant to see them all in action since Roy Jenkins....
...Roy Jenkins, Kenneth Clarke, Michael Portillo, David Miliband and George Osborne are just a few political heirs apparent who never clinched the top job....
...The historian Robert Saunders reminds us that in the 1975 European referendum campaign, Roy Jenkins and Tony Benn engaged in a 50-minute two-way debate on Britain’s membership with no studio audience, no...
...Roy Jenkins (Lab): Became commission president and oversaw the development of the European Monetary System. 1981-1984: Christopher Tugendhat Ivor Richard (Lab): Welsh politician Ivor Richard served as...
...Bernard Jenkin, chair of the public administration and constitutional affairs committee, said he was already in “despair” about the lack of teeth and ineffectiveness of Acoba....
...By its end, a Labour home secretary, Roy Jenkins, had produced a great wave of liberalising legislation to sweep aside the Victorian hypocrisy of social repression....
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