Spring Budget 2024: Why the OBR forecasts should be taken with a side of salt March 6, 2024 These are just forecasts. They will be wrong. This isn't a criticism of the OBR. Forecasting the performance of a £3.3trn economy over five years is just quite hard.
Spring Budget 2024: OBR upgrades UK growth forecasts on lower inflation and growing population March 6, 2024 The OBR is markedly more optimistic than the Bank of England and has upgraded next year's prospects are better than expected
Hunt’s tax cuts are just traps for Labour March 6, 2024 Hunt's budget has done little to turn Tory fortunes around, but it will make Labour's job harder, writes John Oxley.
Spring Budget 2024: Astrazeneca to invest £650m in Cambridge and Liverpool March 6, 2024 AstraZeneca is to invest £650m in the UK, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced in his Spring Budget.
Spring Budget 2024: Is levelling up coming to Canary Wharf? Hunt injects £243m into new homes in banking district March 6, 2024 Canary Wharf is set to receive a multi-million pound cash injection to build more homes in the capital’s banking district.
Spring Budget 2024: Changes to ‘unfair’ child benefit withdrawal for £50,000-plus earners March 6, 2024 Hunt said he will consult on moving the child benefit to a household-based system, which will be introduced by April 2026.
Spring Budget 2024: Hunt confirms vaping tax and one-off tobacco duty hike to fund NI cut March 6, 2024 Jeremy Hunt has confirmed the UK government will introduce a tax on vaping and e-cigarettes in a bid to raise the funds necessary for a two pence cut to National Insurance.
Spring Budget 2024: Hunt cuts National Insurance by 2p – What does it mean for you? March 6, 2024 The move follows a reduction of the same amount in the Autumn Statement, meaning the basic rate will move down to eight per cent starting from April.
Nikki Haley to pull out of Republican race as Trump locked in to face-off with Biden for President March 6, 2024 Reports of her suspending her campaign will mean there is a clear and unobstructed path for Donald Trump to be the Republican presidential nominee.
‘First I’ve heard of it’: Is the government about to sack antisemitism adviser Lord Mann? March 6, 2024 Speaking to City PM, however, Lord John Mann said: "This is the first I have heard of it. My term in office runs until the end of July."
