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Opposition parties offer to ease through Israeli imports law before election

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns said passing the bill at the end of the Dail term would ‘send a powerful message’.

Evening Standard

This Labour budget is austerity by another name

Letters: Politicians including Jeremy Corbyn and MPs from the Green party and Plaid Cymru respond to the chancellor’s plans. Plus a letter from Peter Riddle

The Guardian - UK

Labour can’t properly rebuild our economy outside the single market

The Guardian - UK

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Labour’s first budget: redistribution away from the rich after over a decade of Conservative rule

Labour’s first budget in 14 years appears to have avoided the Halloween nightmares that many predicted. Yes, the overall tax burden is at its highest level since 1948, but this budget’s tax and spend distribution is such that it spreads both the pain and the benefit. Most of the pain…

The Conversation

Polls close in vote for Tory members to pick new leader

Voting has ended for Conservative members to choose between Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick to be the party’s next leader.

Evening Standard

UK’s borrowing costs rise as Reeves’s budget prompts fears of slower interest rate cuts

Markets conclude higher level of public spending could lead to higher inflation, making cuts in Bank of England rate less likely

The Guardian - UK

Jenrick’s Southport comments mark a new low. That matters for us all, not just the Tory party

In our poisoned politics, the Conservative leadership race is a reminder of how social norms can wear away in a democracy, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

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UK Treasury chief admits business tax rise could lead to lower than anticipated wages

U.K. Treasury chief Rachel Reeves has conceded that wages may rise by less than previously thought as a direct result of her budget decision to increase a tax that businesses pay for their employees

The Independent UK

Voices: Is it now acceptable to accessorise with a Remembrance poppy?

COMMENT: As MPs become the latest people in the public eye with not one but several poppies clustered on their lapels, is this once-powerful symbol in honour of the war dead in danger of becoming something with which to make a fashion statement – or actually a way to keep…

The Independent UK

Budget ‘biggest-ever assault’ on competitiveness, says former chancellor Hunt

The Conservative shadow chancellor opened a Commons Budget debate on Thursday.

Evening Standard

Labour Budget raises '£500 million question for Scotland', First Minister says

RACHEL Reeves’s Budget has left a “£500 million question” for Scotland, the First Minister has said ...

The National (Scotland)

Historic 'Scottish Cabinet' papers leading to 1707 Union finally published

HISTORIC Scottish “cabinet papers” dating from the period leading up to parliamentary union with England have been published online for the…

The National (Scotland)

Former council leader quits SNP following suspension

A FORMER council leader has quit the SNP saying his old colleagues “are making an awful lot of mistakes” after he was suspended for rebelling…

The National (Scotland)

'Some nerve': John Swinney and Russell Findlay clash during heated FMQs Budget debate

RUSSELL Findlay has been told he has “some nerve” by the First Minister during a heated debate on the Budget at FMQs ...

The National (Scotland)

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Dining across the divide: ‘I think his opposition to child benefit came partly from a place where he doesn’t have any kids’

They differed on support for those with children – would they agree on experts, immigration or Brexit?

Evening Standard

Minister ‘misinterpreted’ after referring to ‘blob activist’ Tory MP

Commons Leader Lucy Powell and Conservative MP Sir John Hayes shared a series of light-hearted exchanges in the House.

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Labour's National Insurance raid will hit "working people"

It was not all that long ago the Labour Party was campaigning for government, promising to prioritise economic growth, and reassuring voters that vast tax rises were not necessary. Yesterday’s Budget put paid to that.

Evening Standard

Farmers will have to stump up hundreds of thousands of pounds, Tories claim

Business minister Douglas Alexander defended the Government’s reforms of inheritance tax, saying ‘difficult and necessary choices’ had to be made.

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The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves may need extra £9bn to avoid cuts to public services, says IFS

Institute for Fiscal Studies says chancellor may have to revisit tax plans to avoid real-terms cuts in some areas

The Guardian - UK

Ed Davey: care sector will be ‘pushed to brink’ by national insurance hike and should be exempt

Lib Dem leader says rise in employers’ contributions risks worsening NHS crisis

The National (Scotland)

Nicola Sturgeon's paycheque for ITV General Election coverage published

NICOLA Sturgeon paycheque for appearing on ITV's General Election coverage has been published ...

The National (Scotland)

Lower pay rises likely as result of Budget tax increases, Rachel Reeves admits

Tax rises in the Budget are likely to hit workers in the pocket with lower pay rises, Rachel Reeves has admitted.

The Guardian - UK

‘There will be consequences’: budget may mean smaller pay rises, says Reeves

Increase in employers’ national insurance contributions will affect businesses but is projected to raise £25bn

The Guardian - UK

UK politics: Starmer insists pro-growth policies on way after OBR’s budget warnings – as it happened

PM says budget just ‘first step’ after watchdog said measures would make no difference to growth over five years

The Guardian - UK

At last, a government willing to spend – but this budget will expose it to two great dangers

The good news: more money is on the table. The problems lie around how it will be raised – and who doesn’t stand to benefit, says the Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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