Consumer prices rise in February
Britain's inflation rate rose for the first time in five months, edging up to 2% in February, official figures showed today.
The Office for National Statistics said the ...
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Capita chairman quits after criticism of loan to Labour
The Labour loans controversy claimed its first victim yesterday when Rod Aldridge, the head of Capita, the firm that has made millions of pounds from outsourcing public s...
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Bosses' verdict on the Brown era
Digby Jones, CBI director-general
For the first time in my seven years at the CBI, we have actually called for a cut in business taxes. If the deal was - I'm going to ta...
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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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