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MYSTERIOUS: 2 - What They Never Told You

Income tax threshold freeze will hit poorer households harder, experts say

Move will have greater impact on living standards of taxpayers in bottom half of income scale, thinktanks say

The Guardian - UK

Starmer says budget did not break manifesto tax pledge – as it happened

PM says: ‘We kept to our manifesto in terms of what we’ve promised. But I accept the challenge that we’ve asked everybody to contribute’

The Guardian - UK

Economists warn budget built on ‘shaky foundations’; December UK interest rate cut looks more likely – as it happened

Experts question whether back-loaded tax rises outlined in Wednesday’s budget will really happen

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Millions of UK workers to get pay rise as Reeves plans increased minimum wage

Chancellor says people must be ‘properly rewarded for their hard work’ with 16- to 21-year-olds also in line for raise

The Guardian - UK

Child poverty biggest threat to UK’s long-term economic future – Gordon Brown

Mr Brown is expected to call for a ‘new coalition of compassion for children that will create a chain of hope for children right across our country’.

Evening Standard

Gordon Brown to issue warning on ‘shameful epidemic’ of child poverty in Britain

The ex-Labour leader will also call for Rachel Reeves to raise taxes on gambling firms to cover the cost of lifting the two-child benefit cap

The Independent UK

Economists urge Reeves to make ‘difficult’ choices to boost market confidence

Experts said the Chancellor should prioritise bringing down Government borrowing costs.

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I hope Rachel Reeves does raise income tax – there’s a way she can do it fairly

The chancellor might need to break manifesto pledges and a 50-year taboo, but she has a chance to steer UK finances back on track, says Ruth Curtice of the Resolution Foundation

The Guardian - UK

Pound hits lowest since April as investors anticipate budget tax rises; markets hit by AI valuation jitters – as it happened

Sterling drops against dollar as chancellor’s speech is taken as a sign that taxes will rise in the budget, and interest rates may fall faster

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves speech LIVE: Chancellor accused of 'waffle bomb' as she rolls ground for Budget tax rises

Rachel Reeves has said the Budget will focus on ‘getting inflation falling’ and ‘creating the conditions for interest rate cuts’

Evening Standard

Tuesday briefing: Why Labour won’t press the ‘big red button’ to lift 450,000 children out of poverty

In today’s newsletter: The Labour Party recently sounded resolute in its intention to cut the two-child benefit cap. But against an ugly fiscal backdrop, the chancellor may be having second thoughts

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves to pave way for tax rises in pre-Budget speech

Chancellor’s address to come after weeks of expectation management as she scrambles to fill £50bn black hole

The Independent UK

Tax rises at Budget ‘inevitable’, think tank with close Labour links claims

The Resolution Foundation however suggested there was a way to implement tax rises which ‘boosts confidence in the economy and the public finances’.

The Independent UK

Only full abolition of two-child benefit cap will substantially cut poverty, thinktank says

Resolution Foundation says half-measures would have little or no meaningful impact on child poverty rates

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Reeves warned she must end child benefit cap altogether or face rise in poverty

A report by the Resolution Foundation will fuel demands from Labour MPs for the chancellor to find another £3.5bn to tackle end the two child benefit cap

Evening Standard

Tories urge peers to back last-ditch changes to workers’ rights Bill

Shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith pleaded with peers ahead of votes on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

Rent crisis will keep breaking new records without action, Labour warned

Council spending on temporary accommodation has doubled in a decade to £2.8bn, a new report shows

The Independent UK

Millions of Universal Credit claimants set for income boost worth up to £450

The average claimants will receive nearly £400 more a year – but economists warn it comes at the ‘wrong time’

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Labour urged to rethink scrapping minimum wage youth rates amid ‘Neets’ rise

Thinktank fears 16- to 24-year-olds not in education, employment or training could be ‘priced out’ of entry-level jobs

The Independent UK

Keep age-based minimum wage to help young people into work, says think tank

Rachel Reeves has been urged to scrap plans to abolish the lower minimum wage rates for under-21s.

The Independent UK

One million young people will soon not be in education or employment for first time in a decade

The number of so-called ‘Neets’ has risen by nearly 200,000 over the past two years

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves, just tell voters why taxes must go up – and then do it

The Thatcherite notion of tax as wicked must be challenged in the upcoming budget. Target unearned wealth; explain that tax creates a decent society, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Independent UK

Average UK worker would need to save 52 years of earnings to be wealthy

The average Brit would need to work for over half a century with no outgoings to move into the wealthiest bracket, according to analysts

The Guardian - UK

Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says

Research finds it would take average worker saving all their earnings for 52 years to match wealth of richest 10th of society

Evening Standard

Typical worker ‘would need to save over a lifetime’s earnings to become wealthy’

Who your parents are – rather than how hard you work – is increasingly shaping living standards over a lifetime, the Resolution Foundation said.

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