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Rayner should pay back ‘avoided’ tax if she returns to Cabinet – Badenoch

Kemi Badenoch claimed the Prime Minister is considering bringing back Ms Rayner because he is ‘desperate to shore up his crumbling leadership’.

Evening Standard

Budget 2025: Key points on Reeves tax, pensions and benefits plan after details leaked in shock blunder

The Chancellor told the Commons how she is launching a £26 billion tax raid as she unveiled some giveaways to tackle the cost-of-living crisis

Evening Standard

Two-child limit scrapped at cost of £3bn to cut child poverty by 450,000

The confirmation the cap will be scrapped was immediately welcomed by organisations which have long campaigned for it to go.

Evening Standard

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Budget at a glance: What is in Rachel Reeves’ announcement?

Here, the PA news agency looks at the tax rises and cost-of-living measures in Wednesday’s Budget.

Evening Standard

Pete Hegseth Gives Top Official Hard Deadline For Review Of Mark Kelly's 'Potentially Unlawful Comments'

The Department of Defense gave a top military official a hard deadline to provide updates on an investigation on Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, one of six lawmakers who called on military and intelligence officials to refuse to follow unlawful orders

Latin Times

JD Vance's Memoir on Addiction Becomes Drug Smuggling Tool in Ohio Prison: 'Ironical!' Internet Reacts

Authorities revealed that a copy of Vance's 2016 memoir 'Hillbilly Elegy' was sprayed with narcotics and mailed to an inmate at the Grafton Correctional Institution in 2019.

International Business Times

Trump Allegedly Has Had Enough Of Kash Patel And Secretly Wants Him Out For 'Girlfriend' Blunders, National Mishaps

Kash Patel faces scrutiny over personal controversies and security concerns amid reports that Donald Trump is privately questioning his future in office now more.

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Tax hiked and growth downgraded as details of Budget released early

The OBR confirmed Rachel Reeves’ Budget ‘raises taxes by amounts rising to £26 billion in 2029-30’.

Evening Standard

Macron Ends Youth Deployment to Ukraine, Plans to Involve African Resource Instead

Macron ends speculation about French youth sent to Ukraine and outlines a new Africa policy focused on equal partnerships over resource extraction.

International Business Times UK

Live: Reeves asks ‘everyone to make contribution’ in Budget tax threshold freeze

The OBR has apologised after the unprecedented early release of its economic and fiscal outlook document ahead of the Budget.

Evening Standard

Rachel Reeves mocked in fake 'Grand Theft Austerity' AI video game

The parody video depicts the AI chancellor beating up people, and even pigeons, to steal their coins and ‘feel the thrill of fiscal responsibility’

Evening Standard

Labour’s plan to slash jury trials will create more miscarriages of justice, say critics

Leading barrister and pressure groups say move would lead to more unfairness for Black, Asian and minority ethnic defendants

The Guardian - UK

Thanksgiving Traffic Shows the Highway Trust Fund Is Running on Empty

Federal gas taxes no longer cover the cost of highways, leaving taxpayers to fill a growing multibillion-dollar gap.

Reason

Council to seek appeal against High Court ruling over Epping asylum hotel

Epping Forest District Council will continue with legal action over the Bell Hotel after councillors voted over the move on Wednesday.

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Axios

Supreme Court poised to reshape next 3 election cycles

A ruling would mark the court's first word on the 2026 redistricting wars, but it wouldn't be the last.

Axios

"America First" scars loom over Trump's Venezuela campaign

Even a narrowly framed mission could shatter Trump's promise of "no new wars."

Evening Standard

Farmers bring tractors to Budget day protest despite Met police ban

Police said the decision to ban agricultural machinery from Whitehall had been taken because of ‘serious disruption’ the vehicles may cause.

Evening Standard

Budget 2025: Income tax rate will not rise, signals minister - but millions of families 'face £1,600 hit'

Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister Darren Jones makes clear the Government has ruled out a manifesto-busting increase in income tax

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Evening Standard

Rachel Reeves will announce the Budget today: Here's what to expect

The Standard looks at the measures the Chancellor is expected to announce today

AAP

Workers paid for years after leaving government jobs

Lax payroll oversight and contract workers paid more than full-time executives are costing millions in payments from state government agencies.

AAP

Local councillor quits over late-night strip club beer

A local councillor who tried to expense a beer at a strip club to ratepayers has resigned amid accusations he misrepresented his military service to voters.

International Business Times UK

Phil Knight's $3M Power Play Fuels Republicans as Democrats' Net Approval Plummets to 8%

Nike co-founder Phil Knight donated a record-breaking $3 million to Oregon Republicans, while Governor Tina Kotek's approval rating drops to just 8%, highlighting rising political tensions.

The Guardian - UK

‘Unavoidably unfair’: the secret courts system hearing part of Palestine Action case

The CMP system means Huda Ammori will not be allowed to know what allegations were made against her

Evening Standard

Rachel Reeves says public ‘angry at unfairness’ in economy ahead of Budget

The Chancellor said the Government had started to see results in the past year.

AAP

State's credit rating fall 'politically embarrassing'

A leading agency has downgraded a state's credit rating, with an economist saying the move was a vote of no-confidence in a recent budget.

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