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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

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

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

The Independent UK

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

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Budget leak claims big changes ahead for DWP assessments and Universal Credit sanctions

The DWP will not confirm reports published on social media by think tank boss ahead of tomorrow's Budget

Chronicle Live

We’ve avoided recession for now, but the outlook is one of perma-gloom

December’s GDP was boosted by us all cranking up the heating. Actual economic growth has not looked so weak in decades

The Guardian - UK

Families facing ‘groundhog year’ as financial squeeze continues – think-tank

Family finances face a repeat of 2022’s squeeze as the cost-of-living crisis deepens, the Resolution Foundation has warned.

The Independent UK

UK unveils emergency budget amid big demands but little cash

Just three weeks after taking office, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces the challenge of balancing the nation’s budget while helping millions of people slammed by a cost-of-living crisis

The Independent UK

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Letters: nurses need a little nurturing

No wonder they are leaving the profession: nurses don’t expect to be rich, they just want to feel valued

The Guardian - UK

Change of prime minister is likely to delay UK’s fiscal plan

Credibility of economic event could be in doubt if it is launched on Halloween, just a few days into new leader’s tenure

The Guardian - UK

Austerity cuts could be as deep as 2010, experts warn as energy bills set to hit £5,000

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt leading push for ‘austerity season two’, says Labour

The Independent UK

EU proposes joint gas buying and curbs on energy price spikes – business live

European Commission proposes mechanism to cap “excessive and volatile” gas price moves, and to let member countries start jointly buying gas

The Guardian - UK

Warning to expect £4,000 energy bills after Jeremy Hunt scrapped price cap

Even middle-income homes would not be able to afford the new bills

Wales Online

Liz Truss U-turn will send taxes to highest levels since 1950s

But economists warn more pain yet to come with spending cuts

The Independent UK

Spending cuts of up to £40bn expected after Liz Truss announcement

U-turns have filled less than half the £62bn ‘black hole’ created by Kwasi Kwarteng

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Wales Online

Economists fire back after Rees-Mogg tries to pin blame on others for mini-budget chaos

Senior Conservative says it was all down to Bank of England’s failure to raise interest rates in line with the US

Daily Mirror

Benefits will hit lowest level in 40 YEARS if Liz Truss's cut goes ahead

The Resolution Foundation said real-terms benefits could be at their lowest level since the early 1980s - as ex-Chancellor Sajid Javid said a cut wouldn't be 'social justice'

The Guardian - UK

Mini-budget will not lead to promised growth, leading economists tell MPs

Economic confidence in UK seriously undermined by Kwarteng and Truss’s ‘guerrilla tactics’, Commons committee hears

The Guardian - UK

Fitch predicts deeper UK recession; mortgage rates climb – as it happened

Kwasi Kwarteng brings forward release of debt-cutting plan, as Bank of England announces new measures to support pensions sector through crisis

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Daily Mirror

Solemn 'no cuts' promise Liz Truss made 3 months ago - that she's now set to break

This morning Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng refused to rule out a return to Tory austerity after a humiliating tax U-turn - but in July Liz Truss unequivocally told The Mirror that her plans would not involve slashing services

The Guardian - UK

BBC apologises after technical glitches mar Liz Truss interview

Blackout during PM’s appearance on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg prompted social media quips about ‘interference’

The Independent UK

Markets treating UK like ‘developing country’ after Kwarteng budget, warns ex-US Treasury chief

Current turmoil ‘hallmark of situations where credibility lost’, says Larry Summers

The National (Scotland)

'Richest 5 per cent to get richer while 95 per cent get poorer' under Tory plans

THE Tory government's huge package of personal tax cuts amid the cost-of-living crisis will do nothing to stop more than two million people falling…

Wales Online

‘Only the very richest’ in Britain will see incomes grow, tax cut analysis says

Chancellor's huge package of personal tax cuts will do nothing to stop more than two million people falling below the poverty line, says think tank

The Guardian - UK

‘A budget for the 1%’: government accused of huge tax cut for super-wealthy

Kwasi Kwarteng’s measures benefit the rich at expense of struggling families, say critics

The Independent UK

Truss plans ‘skew support’ to richest households, warns Resolution Foundation

There is a case for a ‘solidarity tax’ to recoup some of the cost from those who can pay more, said the think tank.

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