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ICYMI: Crisp the chicken skin on the hob first, then simply whack it in the oven and serve with lemon-spiked butter bean mash and greens This recipe is in memory of my late ex-husband, the academic Ken Millard, who used to pan-fry chicken par excellence and who gave me the idea for the first Roasting Tin […]
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Roast pumpkins richly sauced with a vivid combination of flavours There will, I almost guarantee, be a pumpkin left from Halloween. I will balance the sweetness of the flesh with a miso sauce into which I have also stirred mustard and lemon juice. Basted as the pumpkin roasts, the dark dressing will balance the pumpkin’s […]
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UK News: Starmer to urge world to ‘wake up’ to severity of illegal migration threat at Glasgow’s Interpol meeting
Sir James Dyson, the entrepreneur, has written an article for the Times today accusing the government of “spiteful” changes to inheritance tax rules.
Farmers are furious because farms used to be exempt from inheritance tax, but under changes announced in the budget the 100% agricultural property relief (the exemption) will no longer apply on farms worth more than £1m. The government is also changing the rules on business property relief, which means that some shares in family businesses will no longer be exempt from inheritance tax.
It beggars belief that Labour proudly boasts of trying to attract foreign investment, while at the same time eviscerating homegrown businesses. [Chancellor Rachel] Reeves killing off business property relief (originally introduced by a Labour government in 1976 and reinforced by the Brown government with entrepreneurs’ relief) means that British families are landed with an unpayable tax bill every time an owner dies.
Yet companies operating here but owned by overseas families won’t have to pay Labour’s tax. Private equity-owned firms won’t pay. Public companies listed on stock markets won’t pay. No, it is just homegrown, British family companies that will pay. This is a tragedy.
I think this was a budget that had to do three things. It had to deal with the public finance chaos that we inherited and had to put the public finances back on track. That’s fixing the foundations as Rachel has described it. Also make sure that we’ve got plans to boost growth for the future … And then thirdly, to make sure that we can start to repair the deep damage to our public services and particularly our national health service, which I am deeply worried about.
In order to do all of those things and to deal with that inherited chaos that we had, that has meant some difficult decisions, including on employers’ national insurance contributions. But it’s also been done in a way to protect people’s pay slips and you’ve got no increase in the national insurance for employees. Continue reading…
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UK News: Starmer to urge world to ‘wake up’ to severity of illegal migration threat at Glasgow’s Interpol meeting
Sir James Dyson, the entrepreneur, has written an article for the Times today accusing the government of “spiteful” changes to inheritance tax rules.
Farmers are furious because farms used to be exempt from inheritance tax, but under changes announced in the budget the 100% agricultural property relief (the exemption) will no longer apply on farms worth more than £1m. The government is also changing the rules on business property relief, which means that some shares in family businesses will no longer be exempt from inheritance tax.
It beggars belief that Labour proudly boasts of trying to attract foreign investment, while at the same time eviscerating homegrown businesses. [Chancellor Rachel] Reeves killing off business property relief (originally introduced by a Labour government in 1976 and reinforced by the Brown government with entrepreneurs’ relief) means that British families are landed with an unpayable tax bill every time an owner dies.
Yet companies operating here but owned by overseas families won’t have to pay Labour’s tax. Private equity-owned firms won’t pay. Public companies listed on stock markets won’t pay. No, it is just homegrown, British family companies that will pay. This is a tragedy.
I think this was a budget that had to do three things. It had to deal with the public finance chaos that we inherited and had to put the public finances back on track. That’s fixing the foundations as Rachel has described it. Also make sure that we’ve got plans to boost growth for the future … And then thirdly, to make sure that we can start to repair the deep damage to our public services and particularly our national health service, which I am deeply worried about.
In order to do all of those things and to deal with that inherited chaos that we had, that has meant some difficult decisions, including on employers’ national insurance contributions. But it’s also been done in a way to protect people’s pay slips and you’ve got no increase in the national insurance for employees. Continue reading…
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Online retailer was hit by cost of living pressures and was forced to offload piles of unsold stock at a discount
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Asos has slumped to a wider full-year loss as it said customers are still grappling with cost of living pressures but insisted it was seeing “green shoots” of recovery after a two-year turnaround.
José Antonio Ramos Calamonte, the Asos chief executive, said the market was still “volatile”. “I don’t think by any stretch of imagination things have got significantly better than where they were six months ago. They are not getting worse, which is good news, but there’s still a lot of volatility out there,” he added. Continue reading…
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