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Forget post-election tax cuts, we’re stuck in a lost decade, says IFS

The IFS has cast its eye over Jeremy Hunt’s Budget as millions of Britons face being dragged into paying more income tax

Evening Standard

Jeremy Hunt is helping rich instead of helping people into work, says thinktank

IFS says budget pensions giveaway could open up loophole for avoidance of inheritance tax

The Guardian - UK

Labour would scrap Chancellor’s ‘gilded giveaway’ to wealthy pensions savers

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves would reverse the ‘pensions bung for the 1%’

Evening Standard

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Hunt’s ‘budget for growth’ gives top 1% a pension bonus but ignores public services

No money for nurses, doctors or teachers note critics as Starmer says UK is on ‘path of managed decline’

The Guardian - UK

Freezing fuel duty is a ‘political choice’ by Hunt, says IFS

The Institute for Fiscal Studies said the £6 billion could have funded an inflation-matching pay offer to public sector workers.

The Independent UK

Jeremy Hunt blasted for ignoring public sector pay demands in 'betrayal' Budget

Nurses, teachers and paramedics have responded with fury at the Chancellor's failure to hike public sector pay, with one union claiming he had 'stuck up two fingers to workers with this Budget'

Daily Mirror

Billions spent to stop 15,000 workers retiring is ‘huge giveaway to wealthiest’

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s pensions move as a boost for the ‘richest 1%’.

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Spring budget: Cutting fuel duties rather than funding nurses is 'a choice'

Paul Johnson at the Institute for Fiscal Studies described the Chancellor's decision to continue to lower fuel duty as 'absurd'

Wales Online

Budget 2023: Jeremy Hunt announces changes to childcare, pensions and disability benefits – as it happened

Chancellor abolishes lifetime cap on amount workers can save in pensions without paying tax

The Guardian - UK

The Tories could raise billions in this budget and not spook the markets – but they haven’t got the guts

Rational reforms of our wildly unjust tax system could harvest huge sums, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Alleged 13yo victim of former NSW Labor minister Milton Orkopoulos invited to office party, mother says

The trial against former Labor minister Milton Orkopoulos hears from the mother of one of his alleged victims, who says the minister and another man came to her house looking for her son.

ABC News

Alleged victim of ex-NSW Labor minister Milton Orkopoulos tells court he received anonymous cash

A man who says he was abused by Milton Orkopoulos has told Sydney's Downing Centre District Court he got an apology and received an anonymous envelope with $1,000 cash in the letterbox after he claims he was first touched.

ABC News

MP allegedly gave boy money, cigarettes after abuse

Former NSW MP Milton Orkopoulos allegedly sexually assaulted a 13-year-old in his car before offering the boy $30.

AAP

Orkopoulos allegedly gave boy money, cigarettes after abuse

"It's the worst thing to ever happen to me"

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'I didn't think anyone would believe me,' alleged victim of MP tells court

Orkopoulos, 65, has pleaded not guilty to 28 charges

AAP

Man says ex-MP Orkopoulos abused him as a child

A man didn't tell anyone he was sexually abused by former NSW Labor minister Milton Orkopoulos because he feared no one would believe him, a jury has heard.

The Independent UK

Budget ‘could bring disability benefit reform to push people back to work’

Jeremy Hunt will reveal Spring Budget on 15 March as country battles soaring inflation, rising interest rates and high food prices

ABC News

Court hears Milton Orkopoulos allegedly plied boys with drugs, alcohol at 1999 state election party

A friend of a boy allegedly abused by Milton Orkopolous has told a court he used to smoke "pot" with the former New South Wales MP two or three times a week.

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The National (Scotland)

Tory minister mocked for Boris Johnson 'honesty' claim

THE UK Government’s Northern Ireland Secretary has been mocked for claiming he believes Boris Johnson to be “an honest man”.

Newcastle Herald

Former Swansea MP 'took advantage' of boys, jury told

Orkopoulos, 65, has pleaded not guilty to 28 offences,

AAP

Former NSW minister 'took advantage' of boys, jury told

Former NSW minister Milton Orkopoulos has pleaded not guilty to 28 charges, denying he gave young boys in his electorate drugs and made them perform sex acts.

Evening Standard

Jeremy Hunt could ‘spare’ millions of households £500 hike in energy bills in April, say leading economists

Jeremy Hunt could spare millions of households a £500 hike in their energy bill in April given the surprise short-term boost to the public finances, leading economists said on Tuesday.

The Guardian - UK

Cancelling fuel duty freeze could pay for public sector pay rise, says IFS

Tax and spending watchdog says pay rises would not cause inflation

Birmingham Post

N Brown, Growth Company and Harrison Drury: The 13 latest North West hires and promotions

BusinessLive rounds up the latest hires and promotions across the North West

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County Durham couple discover pregnancy on wedding day after seven-year struggle to conceive

Emma Johnson discovered she was pregnant while getting ready to marry husband Paul

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