The government must stop building roads to satisfy growing “car addiction”, clean air campaigners have said, after three-quarters of transport projects announced by Liz Truss’s…
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What is the impact of 45p tax U-turn on markets and mortgages?
Kwasi Kwarteng and Liz Truss have expended a lot of political capital by abandoning their policy to abolish the 45% top rate of income tax…
View More What is the impact of 45p tax U-turn on markets and mortgages?Investments and pensions: what can you do about UK financial turmoil?
The financial turmoil of the past week provoked by the mini-budget has damaged the pensions, Isas and investments of millions of ordinary British households. What…
View More Investments and pensions: what can you do about UK financial turmoil?Almost 1,000 mortgage deals pulled as panic grips UK housing market
Almost 1,000 mortgage packages were pulled overnight from the British market as panic seeps into the housing market in the wake of Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget.…
View More Almost 1,000 mortgage deals pulled as panic grips UK housing marketKwasi Kwarteng poised to ease planning rules for onshore windfarms
Kwasi Kwarteng looks likely to lift a de facto ban on new onshore windfarms after the UK government said it would bring planning consent into…
View More Kwasi Kwarteng poised to ease planning rules for onshore windfarmsKwarteng scraps top 45% rate of income tax and cuts stamp duty
Kwasi Kwarteng has bet the government’s re-election in 2024 on the biggest tax cuts in 50 years after the UK chancellor announced reductions in the…
View More Kwarteng scraps top 45% rate of income tax and cuts stamp dutyHow to keep the lights on – UK gears up for worst-case energy scenarios
He is the man charged with keeping the lights on this winter. A seasoned civil servant, Jonathan Mills was last month named director general for…
View More How to keep the lights on – UK gears up for worst-case energy scenariosPetrol prices: Kwasi Kwarteng orders inquiry into cost of filling up
The business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, has asked the UK’s competition watchdog to urgently review petrol station operators, amid concerns that retailers have not passed on…
View More Petrol prices: Kwasi Kwarteng orders inquiry into cost of filling upGovernment to consider impact of UK energy efficiency plan on poor households
The UK government is to formally consider the impact of its flagship energy efficiency plan on people most at risk from soaring bills, citing the…
View More Government to consider impact of UK energy efficiency plan on poor households‘Major misjudgment’: how the Tories got their energy strategy so wrong
Government industrial strategies are often derided as attempts to pick winners. The UK’s Conservative government has taken a different approach with its new energy strategy.…
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