NEWS
Rishi Sunak delivers spend now, tax later Budget
Rishi Sunak has delivered a ‘spend now, tax later’ Budget, with a short-term boost to business investment followed by the largest tax rises on companies and households for a generation. The chancellor will spend £65billion in the next two years as the country tries to recover from Covid and government-imposed lockdowns. But this will be followed by £25billion a year of corporate tax and income tax rises by the middle of the decade — Financial Times
UK debt likely to reach £2.8trillion as OBR warns economy still won’t have recovered from damage done by Covid and lockdown by 2026 — Mail
Cost of lockdown will cast a shadow over our lives for decades to come — Telegraph
Rishi Sunak slashes an extra £4 billion a year from daily spending on public services — Telegraph
Chancellor accused of using 5pm daily briefing to sell his Budget to the public — Mail
Buckingham Palace to investigate Duchess of Sussex bullying claims — Telegraph
Arizona won’t enforce Biden’s gun control laws: state representative — Epoch Times
COMMENT
The Tories have trashed Thatcherism and embraced Europe’s politics of decline — Allister Heath, Telegraph
The figures are frightening… God help us if interest rates go up — Alex Brummer, Mail
