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Iain Duncan Smith WEPT over a 19-year-old single mum during BBC documentary

This is the moment former work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith broke down and wept in a TV interview about why he was pursuing [...]

Women to be hit six times harder than men by George Osborne’s tax and welfare changes

Women will be hit six times harder than men by George Osborne's tax and welfare changes, analysis reveals 86% of savings will hit women, while [...]

George Osborne’s Isa budget boon was an inspired move

Lost in the hullaballoo that ended up engulfing last week’s Budget was a boon for tax-free saving.George Osborne declared that the Isa allowance would increase [...]

State pension won’t be cut to fill £4.4bn public finances black hole, promises Osborne

The 'generous' UK state pension will remain untouched, George Osborne promised today, as he was confronted with a multi-billion pound black hole in his Budget. The [...]

George Osborne on the brink of missing his deficit targets for the year

George Osborne is on the brink of missing his borrowing targets less than a week after the Budget, official data showed today.In a fresh blow [...]

How the 2016 Budget will hike household bills in years to come

Landlords: Denise and Dale have five propertiesThe rising cost of insurance, wine and soft drinks will pile on the pounds for family bills. So the [...]

Coca-Cola and Britvic planning legal challenge over sugar tax

Soft drinks companies are preparing to sue the Government over the sugar tax in another headache for George OsborneSoft drinks companies are preparing to sue [...]

David Laws claims David Cameron wanted budget cut to pretend NHS needed less cash

David Cameron has been accused of ‘leaning on’ the chief executive of the NHS to pretend the service needed less money than it did.Former Liberal [...]

Soft drink firms ready to SUE over sugar tax as George Osborne faces Budget headache

Amid his continued woes over the Budget now George Osborne could be sued by drinks companies over the sugar tax Soft drinks companies are preparing to [...]

Could George Osborne face the first Budget defeat in the Commons since 1994?

George Osborne could face the first Commons defeat by a Chancellor on the Budget since 1994 this week as his plans come under even greater [...]

George Osborne’s leadership prospects hang by a thread after Budget row

George Osborne's leadership hopes are hanging by a thread today after another damaging row over benefit curbs prompted the resignation of work and pensions secretary [...]

IDS slams George Osborne for putting rich Tory voters ahead of the working poor as he plunges the Conservative Party into the worst civil war since the 1990s despite claiming he did NOT quit over Europe

Iain Duncan Smith today condemned George Osborne for savaging the working poor at the expense of wealthy Tory-voting pensioners.Despite insisting his bombshell resignation was not [...]

Michael Gove rallies to George Osborne’s side by praising a ‘radical’ Budget

Michael Gove today rallied to the support of George Osborne after Iain Duncan Smith's bombshell resignation left the Tories reeling.The Justice Secretary insisted the Budget [...]

George Osborne’s eighth Budget great for business but a mess for Chancellor

SIMON WATKINS: George Osborne’s eighth Budget great for business but a mess for Chancellor after sugar tax row and Duncan Smith's resignation By Simon Watkins, [...]

George Osborne’s lifetime ISA affects age-gap couples

The economic outlook may be sombre, with the finances of the Government in a precarious state, and the possibility of Brexit hanging over markets. But the [...]

George Osborne’s ‘small business Budget’ will mean tax hikes for big companies

Tough talking: George Osborne said that business rates increases will be linked to the Consumer Prices Index rather than Retail Prices IndexBig firms should be [...]

Key Dates for when Budget 2016 changes come into place

Budget calendar: From tax allowances to Lifetime Isas - when Osborne's key changes kick in between now and 2019 By Laura Shannon, Financial Mail on [...]

George Osborne’s tax hike higher than Labour’s rates

Families are on course to face a higher tax burden under George Osborne than they did in nearly every year under Labour.Figures buried in the [...]

Tory revolt forces Cameron to pave the way for an embarrassing U-turn over £1.2billion disability benefits cut as he vows to ‘get it right’ and protect the vulnerable

David Cameron's official spokesman today insisted the Government position on disability benefits was unchanged David Cameron has paved the way for an embarrassing U-turn over planned [...]

Balance the books? Not when WE pay for mums-of-8, writes RICHARD LITTLEJOHN

Boy George was banging on in his Budget about the need to reduce public spending still further and balance the books. Good luck with that.For [...]

Paul Johnson warns huge tax rises likely with George Osborne’s Budget 2016

George Osborne’s Budget came under attack from financial experts last night, with one saying that if he were the Chancellor he would not be able [...]

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Cheap stunts won’t put us in the black

Delivering his Budget speech on Wednesday, George Osborne could not resist spelling out the supposedly ‘negative implications’ of Brexit.That the Chancellor quoted Britain’s independent financial [...]

Tory MPs rally rebellion against George Osborne’s slashing of disability benefits

George Osborne was facing pressure from Tory MPs over disability cuts today George Osborne faced growing Tory dissent over his cuts to disability benefit today as [...]

Chief of Budget watchdog insists he has NOT reached a verdict on the risks of Brexit

Robert Chote, the chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility, said he had not endorsed either side in the referendum. The head of George Osborne's independent [...]

George Osborne’s sugar tax could raise price of diet drinks and even bottled water

George Osborne's sugar tax could push up the price of diet drinks and encourage us to eat more chocolate, experts said yesterday.The Chancellor shocked MPs [...]

Brexit MPs join with Labour to threaten Budget rebellion over Brussels’ 5% levy on tampons

David Cameron has secured support from all other EU leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel (right) for new flexibility on VAT which would allow the [...]

2016 Budget tax breaks for Airbnb-ers, eBay and Etsy sellers in Budget

Millions of people who rent our their homes on holiday rental sites like Airbnb or sell items or services on websites such as eBay and [...]

George Osborne faces claims of a £560M black hole in education budget

Teachers will spend more time in the classroom as part of their training in a major overhaul of how they qualify under radical plans announced [...]

FTSE CLOSE: Footsie rallies as Fed and Bank of England peg interest rates

17.40: The FTSE 100 closed up 25.63 points at 6201.12 as investors responded to signals that the US Federal Reserve isn't in a hurry to [...]

Lifetime Isa is a clever idea, especially if you’re one of the real Budget winners

When is a pension Isa not a pension Isa? When it’s a Lifetime Isa, it seems.Having been rebuffed in his attempt to replace pensions - [...]

The Queen would love to ditch the eve-of-Budget fiscal meeting

A recent tradition the Queen would love to ditch as she approaches 90 is the eve-of-Budget meeting with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It was created [...]

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: A fine Budget, marred by the dread D-word

After six years in the job, Chancellor George Osborne has become a master of the art of Budgets, unrecognisable as the ingénue who blundered through [...]

George Osborne could learn the hard way that making budgetary rules can be dangerous

Forget the eye-catching fizzy drinks tax and more funding for school sports. The real narrative of George Osborne's fourth financial statement in a year is that [...]

George Osborne announces town halls, hospitals and Whitehall need to make ‘stealth’ cuts

Hospitals, town halls and Whitehall will have to make new 'stealth cuts' thanks to a multi-billion pound 'back door' spending raid announced by George Osborne.The [...]

George Osborne’s Budget 2016 figures rely on levels of immigration way above target

George Osborne's economic blueprint relies on levels of immigration way above the Government's target, documents reveal.David Cameron has pledged to slash net migration to 'tens [...]

George Osborne says he will return Britain to surplus by the end of the decade

George Osborne yesterday promised to balance the books by the end of the decade – but was forced to outline painful spending cuts and tax [...]