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Keir Starmer brands Rishi Sunak 'Mr 1%' as he blasts pension tax breaks for fatcats

The Labour leader made the savage comment about the PM at a local elections campaign launch in Swindon, where he criticised the Chancellor’s decision to scrap the top limit on tax-free pensions savings in his Budget

Daily Mirror

Humza Yousaf reprises Nicola Sturgeon’s old hits in underwhelming first FMQs

Scotland’s new first minister looked knackered from efforts to unite his party after bruising leadership race

The Guardian - UK

Labour would freeze council tax for one year, says Keir Starmer

Party leader says Labour would use windfall tax profits to stop rises, as local election campaign begins

The Guardian - UK

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Rishi Sunak branded ‘Mr One Percent’ by Keir Starmer

The Labour leader hit out at the Tories’ tax policies as he launched his party’s campaign for the May local elections.

The Independent UK

Labour freeze on council tax would include Mayor Sadiq Khan’s share

Sadiq Khan would not be raising City Hall’s share of the council tax this year under a Labour pledge

Evening Standard

Rachel Reeves says Labour does not plan to increase capital gains tax

It comes after Angela Rayner said Rishi Sunak ‘pays a far lower tax rate than working people’ because most of his earnings came from capital gains.

The Independent UK

Postponing state pension age decision ‘not exactly a sign of strength’, Jacob Rees-Mogg tells Tories – as it happened

Latest updates: former business secretary says postponing decision about rise in state pension is ‘a decision in itself’

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‘Britain should be embarrassed’ it has never had a female chancellor, says Rachel Reeves as she eyes up role

Exclusive: Labour’s Rachel Reeves says she wants to ‘smash’ glass ceilings and end the gender pay gap

The Independent UK

Tories' £1bn giveaway to richest 1% 'will stop just 100 doctors retiring a year'

Thousands of fat cat bosses were left toasting Chancellor Jeremy Hunt after he scrapped the top limit on tax-free pensions savings, a move which has been branded a "pensions bung to the wealthy"

Daily Mirror

Labour says Hunt budget unravelling amid criticism on pensions

Shadow chancellor says pension changes are ‘wrong priority, at the wrong time, for the wrong people’

The Guardian - UK

Budget 2023: UK faces ‘disastrous decade’ for living standards as households set to be £4,200 poorer

Economy in ‘deep funk’, warns think tank – attacking Jeremy Hunt’s ‘wasteful’ pensions tax break

The Independent 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

Brits in midst of 'disastrous decade' for living standards after 13 years of Tory rule

A post-Budget analysis by the Resolution Foundation says household disposable incomes will still be lower in 2027-28 than before the Covid crisis while some Whitehall ministries face cuts of 10%

Daily Mirror

Further strikes suspended as NHS workers offered new pay deal – as it happened

Unions recommend members accept pay offer

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The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Hunt defends pensions giveaway as Labour vows to scrap it

Shadow chancellor says decision to axe lifetime allowance is ‘wrong priority at the wrong time for the wrong people’

Daily Mirror

Labour vows to reverse Jeremy Hunt's 'gilded giveaway' to wealthiest 1% of pensioners

The Shadow Chancellor said Jeremy Hunt's 'gilded giveaway' decision to abolish the £1million pension lifetime allowance was the 'wrong priority' and for the 'wrong people'

The Independent UK

Labour promises to reverse Jeremy Hunt’s pensions ‘giveaway for richest 1%’

Rachel Reeves vows to reverse ‘free-for-all for wealthy few’

Liverpool Echo

Energy price guarantee extended for three months but many will still see bills rise

The energy price guarantee had been due to rise to £3,000 in April

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Manchester Evening News

Spring Budget: Jeremy Hunt makes U-turn on energy bill help for ALL as childcare support also extended

It comes ahead of the Chancellor's budget announcement this afternoon

Daily Mirror

Jeremy Hunt is urged to reward key workers in Budget amid tax breaks for the rich

In a bitter blow to those hoping for a helping hand as the cost of living crisis deepens, a source revealed there will be no cash for key workers in today’s Budget

Evening Standard

Budget 2023: Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to deliver ‘back to work’ package amid push for growth

Measures set to include 30 hours free childcare for one and two year-olds to help parents return to work

Evening Standard

OPINION - Rishi Sunak is playing a cunning — and morally dubious — double game

Tomorrow, as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivers his first Budget speech, he will be faced across the Despatch Box by Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves. Yet his true opponents will be the ghosts of Conservatism’s recent past: Boris Johnson and the ethical crash that ended his shambolic premiership;…

The National (Scotland)

'Tory-lite': Nicola Sturgeon slams Labour over criticism of tax system in Scotland

HIGH earners in Scotland pay more tax than their counterparts in the rest of the UK because the SNP has mishandled the economy, Labour’s…

The Independent UK

BBC chair Richard Sharp faces fresh scrutiny amid Gary Lineker impartiality row

An investigation is being undertaken into Mr Sharp’s appointment after he became embroiled in a cronyism row over helping Boris Johnson.

The Guardian - UK

Hunt budget being overshadowed by Lineker row is no bad thing for chancellor

Wednesday’s announcement will not change big picture for UK economy

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