Social media users have highlighted an urgency to gather signatures on a petition to scrap the tampon tax on period pants. Rubina Raut who founded UK-based period pants brand WUKA in 2017, has racked up almost 18,000 signatures on an online petition to recognise the reusable underwear as entitled to being taxed fairly. While sanitary … Read more
Price of a home soars by £14k in just six months… but experts fear boom could fade away once stamp duty holiday ends Average price of a home in the UK jumped to record £252,211 at the end of 2020 Market was ‘turbocharged’ by Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s stamp duty holiday Biggest regional annual rise was … Read more
Doe-eyed Rishi Sunak axed the fluffy bunny act: HENRY DEEDES watches as the Chancellor loses his bonhomie By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 23:27 GMT, 11 January 2021 | Updated: 00:42 GMT, 12 January 2021 Usually when Rishi Sunak announces he’s adding another couple of noughts to the country’s spiralling debt, he puts … Read more
Rishi Sunak today warned Britons to brace for the economy to get ‘worse before it gets better’ as he said the new coronavirus lockdown will have a ‘significant’ cost. Despite saying vaccines offered ‘hope’ and there were signs of ‘resilience’ in UK plc, the Chancellor delivered a grim message about the scale of the devastation … Read more
Footfall in shops plunged 27 per cent last week as brutal lockdown hammers economy with Rishi Sunak set to face grilling from MPs TODAY Shopping footfall plummeted by more than a quarter in the week to January 9 Slump came as Boris Johnson imposed the new national lockdown in England Rishi Sunak will update MPs … Read more
Protect struggling families hit by coronavirus economic collapse from council tax rises, Keir Starmer tells Rishi Sunak amid fears of bills surge in April Sunak confirmed councils can levy an extra 5 per cent onto tax bills in 2021-22 Decision came in the face of record public borrowing to support the country Labour says 5% … Read more
ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Rishi Sunak turns to his vampire squid pals again for help By Anna Mikhailova Deputy Political Editor For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:43 GMT, 10 January 2021 | Updated: 01:44 GMT, 10 January 2021 Rishi Sunak keeps the chumocracy chugging along with the appointment of yet another of his former Goldman Sachs … Read more
Rishi Sunak could delay tax rises until next autumn but will end Stamp Duty holiday in March amid warnings over scale of government borrowing during Covid crisis The Chancellor reportedly believes that it is the ‘wrong time’ to bring in tax rises Source added Mr Sunak has also rejected calls to extend the stamp duty … Read more
Rishi Sunak examining plans for a £3billion scheme to help a MILLION small business owners including plumbers, electricians and musicians unable to get furlough cash or company loans The Chancellor is looking at proposals for a Directors Income Support Scheme Would pay sole directors up to 80 per cent of lost profits for three months … Read more
Multi-millionaire ex-Goldman Sachs banker Richard Sharp who used to be Rishi Sunak’s boss will be next BBC chairman Richard Sharp could be announced in the role as soon as Thursday, say reports The Ex-Goldman Sachs banker used to be the Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s boss He has spent the last year as an unpaid economic adviser … Read more