Sir Keir Starmer will follow the Welsh Government and hike taxes across the UK, a senior Treasury minister has declared. Laura Trott, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said the Labour leader will have to hit working families “to fund his £28billion spending
Sadiq Khan has provoked fury after he announced that he wants to increase his share of the council tax for Londoners by 8.6 percent. Conservative London Mayor candidate Susan Hall accused Khan of “treating Londoners like a cash machine” and said that
The SNP Government has been slammed after unveiling a new tax band that will hammer hard-working Scots. Finance Secretary Shona Robinson delivered her ‘budget’ in Holyrood this afternoon, with the government in a desperate bid to plug a £1.5 billion black hole.
Fed-up Britons young and old are refusing to pay the TV licence fee in their “hundreds of thousands” and MPs are calling for the levy to be scrapped. Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer confirmed on Thursday the TV licence fee would rise next
Tory MPs have called for the licence fee to be axed after a £10.50 hike was announced. The cost of a TV licence, set by the Government, will go up to £169.50 from next year. But Conservative MPs urged for the annual
Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer said she is “concerned” the planned nine per cent rise in the licence fee is “very high”. She said the Government will be making an announcement amid speculation Rishi Sunak will block the hike in the annual charge,
Mexico’s president said Friday the country’s minimum wage will rise by 20% in 2024, to the equivalent of about $14.25 per day. MEXICAN GOVERNMENT FORCES FREIGHT LINES TO PRIORITIZE PASSENGER RAIL About one-third of Mexico’s registered workers report earning the minimum wage,
Turkey’s central bank delivered another huge interest rate hike on Thursday as it tries to curb double-digit inflation that has left households struggling to afford food and other basic goods. The bank pushed its policy rate up by 5 percentage points, to
Does Paris have too many SUVs? The mayor is putting that question to voters in the runup to next year’s Olympic Games, the latest salvo in her long-running campaign to make the city more friendly to pedestrians and the planet, and less
No bus, train, car, or simple road will take you to Britain’s most remote community village which has a population of over 100 people. You will need to take a two-day hike from the nearest village to reach the most remote inhabited