Labour has been accused of hypocrisy after allowing a steep hike in council tax despite previously pledging to freeze it.

The cost of living continued to rise and the crisis in the NHS deepened. UK experienced its coolest summer since 2015, with ...

A US oil firm has said it will end all its operations in the North Sea by the end of 2029, blaming the impact of the windfall ...

Kemi Badenoch has taken the party to 29 per cent of the vote, according to pollsters More in Common, with Labour languishing ...

Rishi Sunak Mr Sunak said the Conservatives had repeatedly warned during the general election that Sir Keir and Ms Reeves were “not telling the truth” when ruling out “tax surprises”.

While chiding Rishi Sunak over his high-profile ... the reliably anti-tax CEO of Ryanair. The budget airline boss argued that any increase in APD would undermine the viability of some UK routes.

While the overall burden will rise to a new peak, the £40bn in tax increases means Reeves narrowly avoids the unenviable ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves was accused by Rishi Sunak of “broken promise ... with the British people” about tax ahead of the general election. Sunak told MPs the Labour administration had ...

They have raised tax to record levels ... the 48 hours before today's Budget announcement amid rumours of the rise. Rishi Sunak pinned down Labour over the OBR's forecast that Labour's plans ...

As he listened to Rachel Reeves’s Budget, however, Sunak underwent a Hulk-like transformation. Reeves was tribal and aggressive, blaming 14 years of Tory failure for the tax rises she had been ...

after Rishi Sunak (remember him?) enforced a deep freeze in 2021. Hundreds of thousands more people would be dragged into upper tax brackets even if they didn’t get an above-inflation pay rise.