Widows 'worst hit' as 50,000 denied winter fuel lifeline - as Labour is slammed as 'Scrooge' by furious campaigners

found 2024 › Dec › 21 (Sat) @ 10:34 UTC

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Tonight is the deadline to apply for pension credit, and to be eligible for the top-up that Chancellor Rachel Reeves stripped from millions in one of her first acts after taking office.

Taxpayers set to shoulder £43billion worth of council debt under Labour's devolution plans

found 2024 › Dec › 20 (Fri) @ 23:49 UTC

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In the biggest overhaul of local government in more than 50 years, ministers want to scrap hundreds of small local authorities as part of Angela Rayner 's 'devolution revolution'.

From Top Gear to toppling Keir? Jeremy Clarkson goes to the pub with Kemi Badenoch to discuss fighting Labour's inheritance tax raid on farms

found 2024 › Dec › 20 (Fri) @ 18:41 UTC

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The former Top Gear presenter has been vocal in his opposition of Labour 's planned inheritance tax raid on farms, met with the Tory leader at his pub The Farmers Dog in Asthall.

Labour's economic nightmare before Christmas as shoppers close their wallets: Retailers blame the Budget as sales fall for the third month in a row while families wait for bargains

found 2024 › Dec › 20 (Fri) @ 18:41 UTC

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The Confederation of Business Industry (CBI) today said retailers were enduring 'a gloomy festive period' with a fall in year-on-year sales in December to date.

Keir Starmer puts ousted aide Sue Gray in the Lords: Ex-civil servant turned Labour apparatchik handed a peerage after losing No10 power struggle

found 2024 › Dec › 20 (Fri) @ 18:41 UTC

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Ms Gray, a former senior civil servant, stepped down as the Prime Minister's £170,000 chief of staff in October following reports of a clash with other senior aides.

How much worse are Britain's roads getting? More routes deteriorating into a poor condition as Labour increases funds to fix potholes

found 2024 › Dec › 20 (Fri) @ 18:41 UTC

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The Government has pledged to spend a record £1.6billion next year fixing potholes across England as part of its latest effort to tackle the biggest scourge on our roads. But is it enough?

Peter Mandelson to be announced as UK’s next US ambassador

found 2024 › Dec › 20 (Fri) @ 07:03 UTC

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Keir Starmer on the verge of appointing Labour grandee to key post at start of Trump presidency

Peter Mandelson is set to become Britain’s next ambassador to the US, the first time a politician has be…

Starmer should not be the fall guy for Labour’s failures. This disaster was written by committee | Owen Jones

found 2024 › Dec › 20 (Fri) @ 07:03 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The PM’s allies on the right are ideologically opposed to any economic agenda that could see off the threat from Reform

Keir Starmer’s team can smell the presence of the political grim reaper. Every F…

Charity song mocking Keir Starmer over winter fuel payments could could storm charts today - but BBC still isn't playing it

found 2024 › Dec › 20 (Fri) @ 07:03 UTC

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Freezing This Christmas, by Sir Starmer and the Granny Harmers, slams the Prime Minister for Labour 's decision to cut winter fuel payments for pensioners

Labour is accused of taking NI from hospices then giving it back under £100m funding plan

found 2024 › Dec › 20 (Fri) @ 07:03 UTC

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Hospices are being handed back money taken from them by Labour's national insurance raid repackaged as bumper new funding, it is claimed.