And still on fire

Matt on fire

'I don't care what the doctor said, you're starting work at Nando's first thing tomorrow'

Paul Lewis 🤔

The campaign against extending VAT to private school fees grows bit.ly/4cY2xod poll finds parents who believe in private education and could afford to pay higher fees say they would choose not to do so.

You call it mischief making, others call it politics!

FSB: The Government has heaped extra layer of confusion on small firms less than 2 weeks before new import rules on plant and food products are due to be introduced. DEFRA says new checks – due to come in on April 30 – may not be turned on as expected. Another post Brexit plus!

It doesn't and nothing are the answers! And as for CGT it is one of the most god-awfully complex taxes, deciding on a main residence if you happen to have two as a relationship changes is not the least of it.

Some Universal Credit claimants will have to wait until 13 June to get the 6.7% 'April' rise bit.ly/4aFs0RL Mirror and Yahoo pick up BBC Money Box story

Coventry Building Society is offering to buy the Co-operative Bank for £780 million after the two revealed in December that they were in exclusive talks to merge - Reuters bit.ly/4aCobg0

Sleaze MPs thrown out by their party now outnumber the LibDems in Commons bit.ly/3JpIJMR as William Wragg and Mark Menzies boost the numbers of the 4th largest grouping in the House!

Strict earnings limit on carers and fear of the penalties for getting it wrong means half a million don’t claim the help they could get, say campaigners bit.ly/4aClUkY

The Department for Work and Pensions campaign to take back money from carers who inadvertently got the complex earnings rules wrong continues bit.ly/4445v6q

Your shit, your bill - govt plan to make taxpayers pay for most of Thames Water’s £15bn debt created by its previous owners who ‘hollowed it out over decades’ bit.ly/3VZUrW1

In 49 days Truss and Kwarteng wrecked the UK economy and threatened its future. But her real crime? Revealing conversations with the late Queen! bit.ly/4b0eAiP that “breaks Radcliffe rules” says anonymous Cabinet spokesperson

Build houses on Green Belt is a bit of a grey area, says Starmer bit.ly/3U3PEQL as he seeks to redefine his way out of housing crisis.

Wrong address - call the police.
£14,000 of party funds misused - don’t call the police.

Putting the squeeze on those too sick to work bit.ly/3UlMwBa PM plans to strip doctors of right to issue sick notes and employ thousands more DWP staff to do their job

Brussels plan to let young people from UK live and work in EU bit.ly/3Q9M7iR hopefully UK will reciprocate