A union for UK-based video game developers has launched its first manifesto, with ambitions to improve conditions for its 1500 members. In particular, the Independent Workers of Great Union (IWGB ...

Labour’s 2024 general election manifesto said Reeves would follow two rules. First, the current budget would be in balance, with day-to-day spending met by revenues. Second, the national debt ...

What is freedom and why does it matter? Timothy Snyder’s answer is that “freedom is the absolute among absolutes, the value of values. This is not because freedom is the one good thing to ...

The Government risks breaching its manifesto promises if it cuts a flagship farming fund at the Budget, critics have claimed. The Chancellor has been warned that slashing a post-Brexit scheme ...

The words in that document had more lasting power than the hundreds of bombs that had been the FLQ calling card since 1963, says Jean-Philippe Warren, research chair for the study of Quebec at ...

Rachel Reeves will be guilty of a “straightforward breach” of Labour’s election manifesto if she goes ahead with raising employers’ National Insurance (NI), a leading economic think tank ...

Your support makes all the difference. Labour has been accused of plans to break a manifesto commitment after repeatedly refusing to rule out an increase to employers’ national insurance ...

Paul Johnson, director of the IFS, said raising employer national insurance contributions would be a ‘straightforward breach’ of Labour’s manifesto (PA Archive) Currently employees pay the ...

She said Labour had been “completely clear” in their election manifesto that they would not put up NI. “There wasn’t a paragraph that said ‘only for employees’,” she said.

The phrase “National Insurance” appears once in Labour’s 2024 election manifesto. It said: “We will ensure taxes on working people are kept as low as possible. Labour will not increase taxes on ...

Keir Starmer has all-but confirmed that a key tax rate is set to go up in the Budget - sparking fresh accusations that would breach an election manifesto pledge. The prime minister refused to deny ...

Hiking employer national insurance (NI) "doesn't look consistent" with Labour's manifesto and could lead to job losses in the long term, the head of an influential thinktank said. Paul Johnson ...