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Would you like interest rates cut this week? Our Shadow MPC answers
15+ hour, 9+ min ago (69+ words) Would you like interest rates cut this week? Our Shadow MPC answers'Yahoo News UK Here's your text with only the percentage symbols (%) changed to "per cent, as requested. No other edits have been made: The North East Shadow MPC, a…...
Bankers may be pariahs, but they are Britain’s great strength
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (420+ words) But the world has changed dramatically since 2008. Whether the Government wants to or not, it is going to have to spend more on defence " as events in Iran have shown. Borrowing costs may well soar. So with public finances stretched…...
Government fund to help North East households hit by rising heating oil prices
2+ day, 50+ min ago (796+ words) The Government has announced a "50 million fund to help households with the rising cost of heating oil. It follows significant political pressure from the North East after the Iran war caused costs to skyrocket. In Northumberland and County Durham, as…...
Businesses to get £3,000 state bonus for hiring unemployed young people
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (37+ words) Businesses to get "3,000 state bonus for hiring unemployed young people'Yahoo News UK Businesses will be given a "3,000 government bonus for hiring a young person who has been out of work for six months....
Richard Tice avoided £600,000 in tax after 'exploiting HMRC loophole"
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (855+ words) REFORM UK's deputy leader avoided nearly "600,000 in corporation tax after "exploiting" a loophole, according to reports. Richard Tice's property company, Quidnet, paid nothing in corporation tax on its multimillion-pound profits from 2018 to 2021 due to obtaining an "odd" legal status for…...
UK interest rate cut off the table amid Middle East conflict, economists say
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (499+ words) Soaring energy prices caused by the war in Iran means an interest rate cut next week "makes no sense, with future reductions also hanging in the balance, economists have said. Economists have changed their opinion on what will happen to…...
Trade war: UK among economies included in fresh investigation
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (35+ words) Trade war: UK among economies included in fresh investigation'Yahoo News UK The UK has been included in a fresh US trade investigation that could result in new tariff pressure being applied to dozens of countries....
Households on heating oil already grappling with soaring prices
1+ week, 1+ day ago (423+ words) Households that rely on heating oil are grappling with immediate rising costs as the Middle East conflict causes prices to soar. Home heating oil is used by around 1.5 million households in the UK, but sudden volatility in global oil trade…...
Wildlife to replace humans on next series of UK banknotes
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (272+ words) LONDON, March 11 (Reuters) - Images of animals will feature on the next series of banknotes from the Bank of "England, as the central bank shifts away from historical "figures such as William Shakespeare, Winston Churchill and Jane Austen over the coming…...
Esther McVey: 'Government's malicious attack on business is economic illiteracy"
1+ week, 1+ day ago (439+ words) Towns and high streets across Tatton are full of amazing businesses. They have shown incredible resilience over the last few years (especially through lockdown), but there is a limit to that resilience when this Labour government keeps piling on the…...