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For decades now, whenever the British public has faced the prospect of tax rises, large sections of the electorate – so large they sway most politicians…

Youth unemployment is at the highest level since the Covid pandemic, as younger people bear the brunt of a worsening slowdown in the UK jobs market.Excluding…

The chancellor should ignore “scaremongering” by gambling firms and raise taxes on the £11bn sector’s most harmful products, MPs on the influential Treasury select committee have…

The debt-laden company behind William Hill is considering closing up to 200 betting shops if Rachel Reeves’s autumn budget raises taxes on the gambling sector.Evoke, formerly…

Rachel Reeves could raise as much as £45bn in taxes without breaking Labour’s manifesto promises, according to a City report.Economists at the US investment bank Morgan…

Rachel Reeves has confirmed ahead of her speech to the Labour party conference that she no longer stands by a pledge last year not to raise…

Labour should consider raising taxes on gambling firms to cover the cost of lifting the two-child benefit cap, the party’s deputy leadership candidate Lucy Powell has…

Pressure to go further on wealth taxes – by creating new modes of clawing at hoards of hard-to-reach cash – is mounting.For starters, the fiscal picture…

Denmark’s world-leading success in commercializing research should not be written off as a one-off confined to the country’s booming weight loss drug industry, a Nobel-winning scientist…

If we can’t have your money, baby boomers, we want your time. And more specifically, those who qualify as fit and healthy should be asked to…