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He reduced the main small firm’s corporation tax and also introduced the flat-rate VAT scheme for micro businesses. Alistair Darling took office just as the global financial crisis struck. Darling quickly concentrated…
Read moreA new IPPR paper argues that the UK must again become a member of the European Union. In a rapidly shifting global order, increasingly characterised by geoeconomic blocs, the current series of individual deals with…
Read moreThe roles advertised by Downing Street give a glimpse into the biggest challenges facing the prime minister – and what he has decided to prioritise. The new hires will flesh out the threadbare No 10 policy unit – where…
Read moreThen, have you ever received a suspicious message from Booking.com? The European Commission has launched an investigation into whether the travel platform is doing enough to protect customers from scams and fraudulent…
Read moreIn Berlin entbrennt zeitgleich auf der Ministerpräsidentenkonferenz ein harter Verteilungskampf um die Energiekosten. Rasmus Buchsteiner beleuchtet die Milliarden-Forderungen von Hendrik Wüst zur Stromsteuer sowie die…
Read more“I don’t know yet if we can call it betrayal, but I would call it a mistake,” he said. “Because … it’s now giving Russia a new hope: New hope that they can disregard Europe, they can disregard Ukraine, they can focus on…
Read moreBut recently, something has begun to change. Polls currently have the Conservatives and Reform neck-and-neck. Political correspondent Aletha Adu charts the "Kemi Bounce", and talks to Nosheen Iqbal about whether Badenoch…
Read moreThe AfD “wants to annihilate the CDU in Germany” by “forcing us into a debate about how to deal with it in order to divide the party,” he added. “We must not allow that to happen.” Under pressure from conservatives in…
Read moreUkraine has learned a tremendous amount since 2022 about what makes a foreign volunteer genuinely valuable, and those lessons should shape what comes next,” Mobbs said. Family complaints As well as red tape linked to…
Read more“You think of Italian food, mozzarella, tomatoes, olive oil.” The result, he said, was to conceal a patriarchal model with men above women behind “bucolic, positive images. It’s monstrous,” he said. Pozzolo rejected the…
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