Politics
Sunak’s Budget slashes taxes on bank profits
Rachel Reeves said it was wrong to slash taxes when “bankers’ bonuses are set to reach a record high this year".
Wales’ first minister “baffled” by people who support first-past-the-post elections
"How anyone clings to the notion that a system which delivers, so consistently, majority Conservative governments on a minority of the votes cast is best for working people simply baffles me," Labour's Mark Drakeford said.
Right-wing press praise Sunak’s ‘tax cuts’ amid highest tax rise in decades
The Daily Express, the Daily Mail and The Telegraph all put a positive spin on the Tories' Budget announcement to mask the biggest tax increase in decades.
Levelling up? Budget slashes £2 billion in funding for poor areas
The government had promised to match lost EU funding for deprived areas - but Rishi Sunak had other ideas.
English water firms have handed £57 billion to shareholders in the 30 years after privatisation
By contrast, Scottish Water - which is publicly owned - has invested nearly 35 per cent more per household in infrastructure than the privatised English firms, charging 14 per cent less and not paying out dividends.
EU countries move to ban domestic flights as Sunak slashes taxes on them
Spain, Austria, The Netherlands and France have put in ambitious measures to significantly reduce CO2 emissions in Europe by 2050. But Sunak says flights will "bring the UK together".
Tory councillor pocketed £86k of taxpayer cash to send one email a week for nearly five years
"...to spend almost five years in that role and not help a single constituent is breathtaking laziness."
Labour: ‘Rishi Sunak is living in a parallel universe’
Rachel Reeves said the Chancellor's Budget was "loading the burden" on working people.
PMQs 27th Oct – Turd-Reich u-turn sends you around the u-bend
Lest we forget that this government voted to allow human faeces to land on our beaches. The first unwanted invasion of our shores since 1066.