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Boost for London market as three-year stamp duty holiday on IPOs confirmed

But a shock rise in dividend tax ‘undermines the drive to increase investing in Britain’, experts warned.

Evening Standard

Budget 2025: Renters braced for price hikes after Rachel Reeves hits landlords with tax increase

The Conservative leader says Rachel Reeves’s plan to increase taxes on rental income will force landlords out of the market and leave tenants paying the price

The Independent UK

UK budget raises taxes by £26bn, gaining investor approval after surprise leak

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves announced tax-raising measures, including new duties on high-value properties, dividends, and savings, in the state budget presented on Wednesday.

Euronews

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Rachel Reeves has many problems. She’s realising that her Brexit bind may be the biggest of all

Brutal economic realities are prompting a shift in Labour’s tone on Europe. But will it dare tell the whole truth about Britain’s predicament, asks Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK

Budget 2025: Rachel Reeves to hammer London in tax grab on wealthy homeowners and millions of workers

The Chancellor’s plans will also see 260,000 children in the capital benefit from the lifting of the two-child welfare cap

Evening Standard

Changes to UK travel: What dual citizens need to know about the new ETA visa

Discover how the UK's new ETA visa system affects dual citizens and what changes mean for your travel plans

Evening Standard

Archaeologists stumble upon a face-down burial at an Iron Age site, and the positioning suggests a grim story

Ancient Britain's darkest secrets revealed.

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This make-or-break Budget must match the chancellor’s fighting talk

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: She has broken records by becoming Britain’s first female chancellor, but Rachel Reeves’s bold reforms and her fealty both to her backbenchers and bankers risks unsettling the very people she needs onside

The Independent UK

Andrew Windsor Reportedly Set To Flee UK For $13M Middle East Palace Bolthole

Andrew Windsor is set to flee Britain for a fortified $13M Abu Dhabi palace as King Charles strips his titles and US pressure for his Epstein testimony mounts.

International Business Times UK

Christmas sandwiches have become unhinged – so why does Britain keep buying them?

COMMENT: They’re overpriced, structurally unsound and weirder by the year, yet we buy them anyway. Hannah Twiggs investigates the runaway Christmas-sandwich economy, the cold-roast physics behind them and why your pick reveals more about you than it should

The Independent UK

UK scaleups defy gloom as investors, founders and Government unite for growth push

Ignore the doom-mongers - scaling Britain is thriving, finds new data

Evening Standard

The small plates that stole dinner: how snacks conquered Britain’s restaurants

It’s love at first bite for diners. From cheese puffs to tuna eclairs, chefs are putting some of their best ideas on the snack menu

The Guardian - UK

The shameful attacks on the Covid inquiry prove it: the right is lost in anti-science delusion

There is nothing wrong with questioning the mighty cost of the lockdowns, but we can’t let hardline libertarians rewrite Britain’s pandemic history, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Voices: Readers warn solo-drinker ban would only worsen Britain’s ‘loneliness epidemic’

YOUR VIEWS: Our community said a Greater Manchester bar’s solo-drinker ban sends the wrong message, arguing it unfairly stigmatises people on their own and shuts down a long-standing part of British pub culture

The Independent UK

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Remembering Richard Burns, 20 years on from his death

On this day 20 years ago, Richard Burns sadly passed away due to cancer, exactly four years after claiming the 2001 World Rally crown. In an article originally published in Autosport magazine on 1 December 2005, David Evans recounts his incredible career along with tributes from those who knew him…

The Guardian - UK

Is British politics immune to US-style rightwing Christianity? We’re about to find out

Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson are increasingly espousing Christian ‘values’, and a wealthy US legal group is becoming influential – this could have dire consequences, says author Lamorna Ash

The Guardian - UK

Bond market power: why Rachel Reeves is keen to keep the £2.7tn ‘beast’ onside

Hugely influential traders will be hanging on the chancellor’s every word when she announces her budget

The Independent UK

650 jobs at risk as huge UK metals recycling firm files for liquidation

Unimetals Recycling is expected to begin winding down operations imminently

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Evening Standard

650 jobs at risk as metals recycling firm files for liquidation

Unimetals Recycling plays a key part in Britain’s steel industry.

The Conversation

How new asylum policies will affect child refugees

The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has announced plans for the biggest overhaul of the UK asylum system in decades. Some of the harshest criticism of the proposals has come from Labour peer Lord Alf Dubs, a former child refugee who came to Britain on the Kindertransport from Prague in 1939.…

International Business Times UK

Reeves Under Fire as Directors Flee Britain and Small Firms Struggle With Soaring Costs

A 42% surge in UK directors moving overseas and soaring costs for SMEs spark fears that Rachel Reeves's Budget could deepen Britain's growing business crisis.

The Independent UK

How do Britain’s rail fares compare with train ticket prices in Europe?

Exclusive: As regulated rail fares in England are frozen, we investigate the cost of train travel across the continent

The Independent UK

Chancellor warned of crisis before make-or-break Budget

With hours to go until one of the most anticipated Treasury statements in modern history, Rachel Reeves has been given disastrous warning on the economy’s outlook

The Independent UK

Steel billionaire reportedly latest to leave UK ahead of proposed tax squeeze on ultra-rich

Move marks the latest high-profile departure amid fears Rachel Reeves’s budget will drive Britain’s wealth overseas

International Business Times UK

Royal Navy Intercepts Russian Spy Ships –- Healey to Putin: 'We see you. We know what you're doing'

The Royal Navy intercepted Russian vessels in the English Channel amid warnings over espionage threats to UK undersea cables and military operations.

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