Prescott and Brown kept in dark on loans
The depth of secrecy around Labour's pre-election loan-raising activities emerged last night when party officials confirmed that the deputy prime minister, John Prescott,...
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Brown breaks with tradition
The first budget of a parliament is normally when chancellors get bad news out of the way. If taxes are going up, governments prefer not to hang about, taking the view th...
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Loans-for-lordships scandal deepens as police investigate
Labour party attempts to draw a line under the loans-for-lordships affair were foundering last night after Scotland Yard announced that it was investigating allegations t...
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Main points
Tax and duties
· Personal tax allowance to rise from £4,895 to £5,035.
· Stamp duty exemption to rise to £125,000.
· Inheritance tax exemp...
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Eleven goes into 10 with a bit left over
Gordon Brown's 10th Budget, on Wednesday, is likely to be a distinctly prime-ministerial affair, ranging far beyond the dry questions of tax rates and spending limits. Wi...
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Would I lie to you?
On the matter of the correct receptacle for draining spaghetti, my husband demonstrates a bewildering pigheadedness. He insists that the colander is the appropriate choic...
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Dole blues
Up to 300,000 students demonstrated throughout France yesterday against a government measure designed to tackle the biggest scourge of the national economy - the 23% unem...
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Labour received £14m in secret loans
Downing Street today announced that a former Whitehall mandarin has been appointed to look into the future of party funding as Labour confirmed it had received almost ...
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On the backbenches, a sense of alarm
Labour backbenchers supported Jack Dromey's calls for a full inquiry into the party's acceptance of undeclared loans yesterday, warning that the furore was making the gov...
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MPC hawks should listen to Nickell
Maybe it is time to consider a rate cut
The papers were full of the curious (and untrue) story of Norman Lamont and his shopping expedition to a Thresher's off licence i...
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Engineering 
