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Tax rebate plan for 'green' drivers and homeowners
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City in uproar at plan for bonus 'supertax'
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Treasury dismisses claims that new levy on payouts will drive bankers abroad
Tories poach PM's efficiency advisers
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Labour clampdown on pay ambushed by Conservatives' raid on Government's axemen
So Mr Cameron, I'll pay more tax because I haven't found Mr Right?
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Tory leader comes under fire for tax plans at audience with single parents.
Gobbledegook prize for Mandy
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Lord Mandelson has earned a black mark from language campaigners for talking himself into a corner as he discussed MPs' expenses.
Brown to curb top public sector salaries
Monday, 7 December 2009
PM detailed plans to cut another £3bn from the cost of running Government.
Ashcroft's taxes nothing to do with me, says Cameron
Monday, 7 December 2009
He tells us he is 'meeting his commitments', Tory leader says on TV show
David Cameron denies 'war' with single parents over tax breaks
Monday, 7 December 2009
David Cameron denied being "at war" with single parents today as he faced questions over planned tax breaks for married couples.
Tax hikes expected for the better off
Monday, 7 December 2009
Chancellor Alistair Darling is widely expected to announce a raft of tax increases for the better off when he delivers his Pre-Budget Report on Wednesday.
Minimum alcohol price 'would cut binge drinking'
Monday, 7 December 2009
Alcohol should be priced at a minimum of 60p per unit to drive down binge drinking, public health experts said today.
Rhodri Morgan praises devolution 'successes'
Monday, 7 December 2009
Rhodri Morgan hailed the success of devolution today - his last full day as Wales's First Minister.
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1 Ten Tors death: teacher 'ignored pleas'
2 So Mr Cameron, is it right that I will pay more tax because I haven't found Mr Right?
3 I'm so like my dad, says Stephen West
4 Police U-turn on photographers and anti-terror laws
5 London fails to make top 50 'most live-able' cities
6 Big squeeze hits middle classes and rich
7 Married couple 'too young' to live in the UK
8 Gobbledegook prize for Mandy
9 Charities forced to merge or lay off staff as economic crisis hits their funding
10 Britain faces return to Victorian levels of poverty
11 Tories poach PM's efficiency advisers
12 Senior officer urged Blair to delay Iraq invasion
13 Violence erupts at Nottingham anti-Islam demo
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1 McCartney Meltdown: You thought it was bad... but it's getting bitterer all the time
2 The Big Question: Why are girls committing more crime, and should we be alarmed?
3 Swindon twinned with Disney World
4 Tories poach PM's efficiency advisers
5 Blair tells Tehran: 'Stay out of our business in Iraq'
6 Brown plans 'independent' foreign policy
7 Ten Tors death: teacher 'ignored pleas'
9 Police close scam websites targeting Christmas shoppers
10 So Mr Cameron, is it right that I will pay more tax because I haven't found Mr Right?
11 Sorry at last: minister apologises to widow of soldier killed by lack of body armour
12 Warning: Do not take this picture
13 British soldiers take MoD to court over 'medical negligence'
14 Hey nonny no, no, no: Goths and pagans are reinventing morris dancing
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1Kevin Anderson: Decision time... face the facts or give up
2Clinton offers Knox hope as 26-year jail term begins
3Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: We're still the most class-ridden country under the sun
4Greenhouse gas cuts just 'token gestures'
5Was Russian secret service behind leak of climate-change emails?
7Bruce Anderson: Save the bankers! Only they can deliver economic growth
8Sean O'Grady: UK economy to drop out of world's top 10
Columnist Comments
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• Mary Dejevsky: World leadership is an outdated hope
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