Influential Conservatives are intensifying pressure on Rishi Sunak to change course and make targeted tax cuts to kick-start the economy. A growing number of MPs are working on proposals to hand to the Treasury ahead of the March budget. They want tax
Senior Tories have called on Jeremy Hunt to freeze corporation tax to revive Britain’s ailing economy. Official figures released on Friday will confirm if the country is in recession or has escaped. Conservative MPs urged the Chancellor to be bold in his
Israel’s West Bank settler population now makes up more than half a million people, a pro-settler group said Thursday, crossing a major threshold. Settler leaders predicted even faster population growth under Israel’s new ultranationalist government. The report, by WestBankJewishPopulationStats.com and based on
Comment on this story Comment As Wendy Sayles recently got ready to sell the Larchmont, N.Y., home that she and her family have lived in for nine years, she noticed that the professional painters had overlooked a spot on the basement door,
In the face of record inflation and soaring interest rates, health diagnoses of the British economy have been consistently critical over the past year. Friday’s revelation of GDP growth in November – contrary to analysts’ predictions – appears to have bucked the
The deal will make the UK the first European country to have such an agreement with Japan. It is part of the UK’s post-Brexit defence and foreign policy “tilt” towards the Indo-Pacific region. The pact comes amid rising tensions with China, including