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Universal's first UK theme park set to boost economy by nearly £50billion
US-based Universal Destinations and Experiences, which is owned by Sky parent group Comcast, bought a 476-acre site on a former brickworks in Kempston Hardwick, Bedfordshire, last year
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Tories instruct lawyers to fight release of Universal Credit cut documents
The Information Commissioners' Office last month ruled in favour of The Mirror and ordered the Treasury publish an analysis of a scrapped Covid-era top-up in benefits
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Energy bill payers could save £152 under new plans to cut 'unfair' tax
Standing charges for every household with electricity and gas connections would be cut by almost half under the proposals - saving households over £152 a year
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'Tories have no record to boast of - fighting dirty was inevitable'
"Desperate Tories have also pushed advertisements on social media that claim Keir Starmer’s victory would be welcomed by Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin"
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Average food bill rocketed by £1,000 since last election as Tory chaos blasted
New analysis found households spent an average of £60 a week on food and non-alcoholic drinks in 2019-20, but this has risen to £79 since then amid the cost of living crisis
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Penny-pinching Chancellor Jeremy Hunt spent £2,700 on new red box for Budget
Treasury documents show the penny-pinching Tory upgraded his ministerial baggage with a fresh leather-bound box from official manufacturer Barrow, Hepburn and Gale
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Asian stocks mixed ahead of US inflation reports and Federal Reserve meeting
In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 index saw a slight increase of 0.1% at 39,092.32 as investors eagerly awaited the outcome of a meeting by the Bank of Japan
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Nigel Farage's Reform UK took £120k Covid cash while saying 'scrap furlough'
Richard Tice said: "There are millions still sitting on furlough, being paid not to work. Open up, stop furlough." The same year his party claimed more than £60,000 in Covid job retention scheme payments
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'Labour is performing a public service by outing lying PM for his tax slur'
Paul Routledge on Rishi Sunak's 'slur' that the Labour Party plans a £2,000 tax raid on voters, showing that, once again, the Tories cannot be trusted to tell the truth
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Labour warns Rishi Sunak 'can't stop telling porkies' in savage advert
A Labour poster asks what else Rishi Sunak is lying about after the Prime Minister was criticised for making bogus tax claims during the ITV General Election debate
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'Rishi Sunak sinks to new low in debate with false £2,000 Labour tax hike claim'
"The Prime Minister has shown disdain for voters and further undermined trust in politics after his fake £2,000 Labour tax claim - these acts alone make him unworthy of office"
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Keir Starmer accuses Rishi Sunak of ministerial code breach on Labour tax 'lies'
Labour leader Keir Starmer said he believed Rishi Sunak's dodgy claims amounted to a breach of the ministerial code, and would back a probe into the Prime Minister's behaviour
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Andy Burnham: 'Rishi Sunak relied on underhanded antics to spoil debate'
The Mirror's star columnist Andy Burnham hits out at PM Rishi Sunak for 'throwing wild punches' over a strongly-disputed £2,000 Labour tax rise that came straight from the Boris Johnson textbook
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Rachel Reeves rules out emergency Budget if Labour wins General Election
Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves also said that, if she enters the Treasury, there will be 'no additional tax rises' after she vowed not to hike national insurance or income tax
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Rishi Sunak ordered to publish secret analysis showing benefit cut impact
As Chancellor, Rishi Sunak ignored pleas from campaigners including footballer Marcus Rashford by scrapping the £20-per-week Universal Credit uplift introduced during the pandemic
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Government borrowing in April higher than forecast in blow to Chancellor
Borrowing for April hit £20.5billion, the fourth-highest since records began in 1993, and more than the £19.3billion predicted by the Office for Budget Responsibility
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Gordon Brown demands two-child benefit limit is scrapped in poverty warning
Former Labour PM Gordon Brown challenged the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to announce a multi-billion pound programme this year in an emergency drive to tackle child poverty
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Global stocks are mostly higher ahead of crucial US inflation update
World stocks were mostly higher on Wednesday after a rally on Wall Street that took the Nasdaq composite index to a record high
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798 years collectively spent waiting to speak to taxman in 2022-23, report finds
HMRC’s strategy is to encourage customers to turn to its digital services first – but it is not clear how far and fast digital services will reduce demand for telephone and correspondence services
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Government sells off more of its NatWest stake ahead of planned summer sale
The Government's shareholding in the bank has dropped by around one percentage point to 26.95%
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Government should be 'extremely worried' about fall in self-employed people
Sir John Redwood told the Commons that the amount of self-employed people had dropped by more than 800,000 since 2019, which he argued was in part due to a “self-inflicted tax route”
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Global markets wobble after Federal Reserve delays cutting interest rates
World markets dipped in Thursday trading after US stocks swung to a mixed finish with the Fed sticking to current interest rates
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Pay packets £200 a week less than before 2008 global financial crisis, says TUC
The TUC said the findings were a 'damning indictment' of the Conservatives' economic record, adding that millions of UK workers are enduring the longest pay squeeze in more than 200 years
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Alphabet and Microsoft push Wall Street towards first winning week in a month
'The economy remains on solid footing,' stated economists from Bank of America in a recent analysis
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Nature degradation could cause 12% loss to UK GDP in coming years, analysis
The first-of-its-kind analysis found that nature-related risks were as detrimental, if not more, to the economy as those from climate risks