NHS pension tax grab could see ‘return to strikes’, government warned Politics Plans to reduce the tax-free lump sum savers can withdraw from their pension could see NHS workers mount a “return to pay unrest and strikes”, the government has been warned. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is reportedly mulling plans to cap withdrawals at £100,000 in the Budget on 30 October in a bid to shore up the [...]
Fears grow about Labour’s private school VAT raid Politics According to analysis published by the Independent Schools Council (ISC) last week, there was a 1.7 per cent drop in the number of children attending private school in the last year.
Government must ‘offer hope’ to attract investment, CBI chief to argue Politics The government must “have and offer hope” in order to attract global investors to bet on and back Britain, the chief executive of the Confederation for British Industry (CBI) will argue. In a rejection of No10 and the Treasury’s gloomy economic language, Rain Newton-Smith will use the CBI’s annual dinner in Glasgow to call for [...]