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Cost of living: Labour to force Commons vote on a windfall tax on oil and gas giants

Keir Starmer’s party plans to expose Conservative splits on a windfall tax, claiming the levy would hand the hardest-hit households £600

Daily Mirror

Tory peer calls for welfare boost to counter cost of living crisis

Asda chairman Stuart Rose says universal credit uplift and honesty over Brexit are crucial to combat ‘national economic emergency’

The Guardian - UK

1 in 5 Scots are now unable to pay their energy bills on time

WARNINGS are being ramped up over the impact of the cost of living crisis, with charities and businesses revealing new figures showing how Scots are…

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Cabinet ministers ‘criticise Bank of England over rising inflation’

A senior minister said the Bank of England’s job is to keep inflation at two per cent

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak's Treasury spent £250k on focus groups in a single year

More than half of the sessions run by Hanbury Strategy were conducted in Tory target areas in the North, Midlands and Scotland

Daily Mirror

Top Tories 'sing and joke about partygate during joyous Cabinet meeting'

THE Tory Cabinet meeting on Thursday was a “joyous” occasion full of jokes and song despite looming crises of the UK Government’s own making,…

The National (Scotland)

'Prioritise resigning': Boris Johnson's glitzy TikTok video backfires

DOWNING Street has a new offering for people on TikTok (unlike for people suffering through the cost-of-living crisis)...

The National (Scotland)

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Kwasi Kwarteng wants natural gas to be reclassified as ‘green’ energy source to entice investors

‘Shout and scream all you like,’ the minister told campaigners who called for an end to natural gas drilling

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak blames IT problems for not raising benefits in line with soaring inflation

The Tory chancellor left himself open to ridicule when he blamed the UK Government's IT systems for not raising benefits in line with the soaring cost of living.

Daily Record

Rishi Sunak says technical problems stopped him raising benefits more

Chancellor blames DWP computers that allow uplift only once a year, in claims labelled ‘pathetic’ by Jonathan Ashworth

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak claims computer systems won't let Tory government raise benefits

PARALLELS have been drawn between Chancellor Rishi Sunak and a character from a popular comedy show after the top Tory claimed the Government’s…

The National (Scotland)

Rishi Sunak blasted for using 'Computer Says No' excuse to cut benefits for millions

The Chancellor admitted 'it sounds like an excuse' after he blamed IT 'problems' for a real-terms benefit cut. Experts told the Mirror there were computer difficulties with some benefits - but they are no reason not to act

Daily Mirror

Jeremy Hunt hints at Tory leadership bid and warns of 'mountain to climb' at next election

While insisting the war in Ukraine meant it was not the 'right time' for a leadership change, Jeremy Hunt said 'I would be very open with you that I don't rule out a return in the future'

Daily Mirror

Evening Standard Comment: These civil service cuts are the politics of distraction

So there we have it — the Chancellor has finally acknowledged that levelling up, in reality, means levelling down London. In an interview, Rishi Sunak seemed to boast that there is a more robust economic recovery outside of London and the South-East.

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Three imperial policies that still influence life in Britain today

The revelation that Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s wife Akshata Murty claimed non-dom status in the UK for years has drawn renewed attention to an imperialist policy that still holds today. Non-doms may live in the UK, but are considered by the tax authorities to be “non-domiciled” in the country and therefore…

The Independent UK

‘Computer says no’: Rishi Sunak under fire for blaming ageing IT for failure to hike benefits

Experts dispute chancellor’s claim, arguing Universal Credit can – and has – been increased quickly

The Independent UK

Jacob Rees-Mogg warns against help with cost of living crisis because of inflation risk

’You do have to be quite cautious, fiscally, not to make the problem worse’

Reuters

Boris Johnson orders ministers to cut 91,000 civil service jobs

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered ministers to slash 91,000 civil service jobs to free up billions for tax cuts, the Daily Mail reported on Thursday.

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Downing Street is home to worst Covid law-breakers as 100 fines issued by police

A total of 100 fines have been issued for events which broke Covid rules in No10 and Whitehall. It sparked claims Downing Street was the biggest Covid law-breaking address in the country

Daily Mirror

'Downing Street has become the place where our nation's laws are broken'

The sheer number of fines handed out for breaking coronavirus laws undermines Boris Johnson’s repeated claims to MPs that there was no rule breaking in Downing Street

The Guardian - UK

A windfall tax on North Sea oil and gas: what have ministers said so far?

Despite Labour’s idea being criticised as ‘disastrous’, Rishi Sunak has said nothing is off the table

The Guardian - UK

Swati Dhingra to join Bank of England’s monetary policy committee

LSE academic and prominent Brexit critic is first Asian woman to be appointed to role, replacing Michael Saunders

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak: windfall tax an option if oil firms fail to invest in UK

Chancellor says he is ‘pragmatic’ about introducing a levy on energy companies to ease cost of living crisis

The Independent UK

Why has Boris Johnson taken his cabinet to Stoke-on-Trent for ‘away day’?

Ministers asked to ‘bring Queen’s Speech to life’ with 300-mile round trip to Staffordshire

Evening Standard

Evening Standard Comment: Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak must be on the same side to fix the economy

The economic news is worse than expected. The economy shrank by 0.1 per cent in March, as hard-stretched consumers began reining in their spending. Ominously, the contraction came before April’s 54 per cent increase in the energy price cap and May’s interest rate rise.

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