Multi-millionaire landlord and side-hustle Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has cut National Insurance by 2% by way of compensation for the cost of, well, bleedin’ everything. That’s a whopping £8 a week for someone on average UK wage, while those earning less than £15,000 have found themselves with an extra £1.63 a week. Oh wondrous, magnanimous overlord! …
Back in the days when I covered Westminster for The Journal, Budget Day was by far the most challenging event in the political calendar, requiring me and the rest of the team to put together a front page splash, an inside double-page spread and a 16-page pullout within a few hours of the Chancellor sitting …
Typically there’s not an awful lot of mystery left when it comes to Budget day. However, Jeremy Hunt had a few positive surprises for the North East. Most notably, the Chancellor announced a ‘trailblazer’ devolution deal for the North East, which the official Budget documents say ‘will provide a package of new funding potentially worth …
Birmingham City Council was voting through a raft of budget cuts amounting to £149m on Tuesday, March 5. Along with £500m of asset sales, this amounts to what my colleagues and I, at the Audit Reform Lab, think will be the biggest cuts any local authority has ever made. The proposals will devastate crucial statutory …
Next week’s Budget is likely to be the final set piece fiscal event before the next General Election. The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will stand at the Despatch Box after weeks of speculation that he will use what headroom he has to fund tax cuts. At November’s Autumn Statement, Hunt’s big headline was a cut to …
You only have to venture out into the communities around you to see deepening poverty. Rising homelessness, community buildings turned into “warm spaces” for people who can’t afford to heat their homes, growing numbers of people being treated by the NHS for malnutrition, queues at food banks. Shockingly, the latest data shows more than one …
The driving forces behind hit Netflix show Sunderland ‘Til I Die have renewed calls for the investment the North East requires to become an international movie hub. Plans were submitted in November to develop state-of-the-art film studios on the site of the Crown Works, in Pallion, on the banks of the Wear. And Fulwell 73, …
North East councils are wrestling with the problem of how to balance their books and are being forced to make agonising decisions on who they will have to let down next. These tough calls are being forced on them, and other councils up and down the country, by a system which sees the Government control …
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