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Oasis ‘Dynamic Pricing’ Row: ‘How a System Meant to Balance Supply and Demand is Being Used to Exploit Consumers Everywhere’
The Government has announced it will include dynamic pricing in a consultation into ticket resale websites after hundreds of complaints over Oasis ticket sales. But that’s just the start
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Laurence Fox’s Reclaim Party is Bankrolled by One Man, New Accounts Reveal
The single donor has also backed an anti-vaxxer, pro-Brexit candidates and the Conservatives
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How the Failing Asylum System Contributed to the ‘£22bn Black Hole’ – But Will the Labour Government Fix It?
Accommodation for asylum seekers awaiting Home Office processing amounted to £6.4 billion of the overspend
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The Truth About Immigration That Sunak and Starmer Aren’t Willing to Tell you About
Both party leaders are promising to slash immigration numbers without being honest about the big costs it will inevitably bring to our economy and public services
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‘Rishi Sunak Claimed Inflation is Back to Normal and Brighter Days are Ahead – he’s Completely Wrong About Both’
On the same day the government was talking up its inflation “success” it launched a domestic emergency preparedness plan, suggesting households stock op on essentials
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The Billions Wasted on Brexit Border Controls to Make British Businesses Worse Off
Brexit will cost British firms £7.5 billion a year in new costs, according to a new report, with hundreds of millions wasted on border facilities that were never used
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Labour Won’t Stick to Conservative Spending Plans, Ed Miliband Confirms
The former party leader told Byline Times that Labour will not ‘not sign up’ to Conservative budgets if the party wins the next general election – a contrast to 1997
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The Plan is Working: Rishi Sunak Races Up the Rich List as Homelessness Soars
The Prime Minister and his wife’s personal wealth rose to £651 million amid the biggest fall in living standards for British people since records began
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‘Panic, Misinformation and Hysteria About Freeports is Drowning Out the Real Concerns’
Chris Grey disentangles the myriad alarming claims being made about ‘special economic zones’ and freeports in order to focus on the real risks
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Jeremy Hunt’s Tax Cuts are Paid for by Slashing Public Services – So Why is Labour So Silent About It?
The Government’s ‘slash and crash’ Budget was left largely unscathed by Keir Starmer’s party. Why?
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Debunking the Debanking Scandal: Is Farage Being Helped by Figures Inside the Conservative Party?
Chris Blackhurst unpacks the NatWest scandal that toppled the first woman to head a High Street bank.
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Why is the Environment Regulator Investing Millions in the Most Climate-Polluting Banks?
The Environment Agency vowed that its pension fund would be going green – Byline Times’ analysis suggests this has not been the case
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Rishi Sunak’s ‘Austerity Bombshell’ That Westminster Won’t Talk About
As Britain goes into recession, the Government is planning to double down on the same slash and burn agenda that first helped get us into this economic slump
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Rishi Sunak’s New Business Council ‘Riddled’ with Rule Breakers Totalling More Than £900m in Fines in a Decade
Sunak’s freshly minted Business Council, tasked with boosting the UK’s economy, includes corporations fined for offences from bribery to money laundering and environmental violations
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Four Years On: Kemi Badenoch’s Sketchy Brexit Benefits
Four years on from leaving the EU, the Department for Business and Trade’s overview of Brexit tells a powerful story – of fiction
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Labour’s ‘Intensely Relaxed’ Approach to Bankers’ Bonuses Tells Us a Lot About a Starmer Government
The party’s U-turn on the bankers’ bonus cap comes just months after the party campaigned against scrapping it
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Tens of Billions in Government and Council Pandemic Spending Unaccounted For as Local Authority Auditing Scandal Worsens
A new report by the Public Accounts Committee lambasts the Treasury for being ‘too passive’ in chasing up the cash, resulting in inaccurate figures
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The Mone Scandal Shows New Laws Around Offshore Ownership Aren’t Working
New legislation designed to limit the activities of Russian oligarchs seems to be more honoured in the breach than the observance
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Pressure for a Windfall Tax on Banks Grows As ‘Big Four’ Net Huge Profits
Four of the biggest banks in the UK amassed £41 billion in pre-tax profits in the first nine months of the year alone.
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Government Challenged Over Massive Hike to Election Spending Limit Which is Set to Benefit Conservatives
The change means parties will now be allowed to spend over £30m in order to win a General Election
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Jeremy Hunt Used Autumn Statement to ‘Channel Funds to Marginal Conservative Seats’ Analysis Suggests
EXCLUSIVE: The Chancellor is lavishing cash at areas under significant threat from Labour
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Austerity 2.0 Snuck into Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement as NHS and Services Face Huge Cuts
Unprotected departments face 14% cuts to fuel the Conservatives’ pre-election tax rebate
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All the Bad News Jeremy Hunt Buried in His Autumn Statement
Details buried in the Chancellor’s statement show we are heading for years more of tax rises, low growth and public sector cuts thanks to his Government, reports Adam Bienkov
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Autumn Statement: Chancellor Jeremy Hunt Could Close These Five Tax Loopholes to Raise Over £7 Billion a Year
There are over 1,000 loopholes and exemptions in the tax system – often designed and secured by big firms and lobbyists.
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Democracy Experts Sound Alarm on Corruption Risk as Local Council Audits Collapse
With only a fraction of local government audits now completed on time and a significant decline in their quality, a fundamental pillar of devolution is under threat, leaving communities in the dark on their council finances, experts warn
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‘From BP to Banks: There’s Lots of Money Around – It’s Just Not In Workers’ Pockets’
Despite Government calls for pay restraint, new figures show some people are doing very well out of the cost of living crisis, writes Josiah Mortimer
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‘Ed Balls and George Osborne’s New Podcast is Essential Listening – But Not for the Reasons They Think’
The two former chancellors reveal how ‘the grown-ups in the room’ collude in their outlook
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Companies House Failings Enable Global Fraud and Identity Theft
The lax management of the UK companies register allows fake businesses to proliferate
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‘Noisy Reporting’ by Media of COVID Financial Scandals led to UK’s Slump in Corruption Index, Cabinet Office Claims
A new parliamentary report reveals that, apart from the £16.4 billion estimated tax and benefit fraud found by the National Audit Office last year, ministers have no idea about the level of fraud in the rest of government
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‘Austerity is a False Economy that has Brought the Nation’s Roof Crumbling Down’
The collapsing school buildings scandal has exposed how the Government failed to ‘fix the roof while the sun was shining’
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Rishi Sunak Says ‘All Crimes’ Must Be Investigated – So Why is he Blocking Plans to Go After Fraudsters, Cronies and Kleptocrats?
Sunak’s Government is throwing out plans to get dirty money out of the UK
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‘The Trauma of COVID Opened a Door That Governments and Corporations Can’t Close’
The pandemic has revolutionised how an entire generation see work, education and society
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The Russian-Linked Fintech Moguls Given Safe Haven by the UK
Matt Bernardini reveals the Russian-linked Fintech companies that continue to operate from the UK, despite being sanctioned elsewhere for their ties to the country
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Campaign Groups Call for Increased Regulation after Barclays Classifies Loan to Shell as ‘Sustainable Finance’
There have been growing concerns among regulators about the potential misuse of sustainability-linked loans
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Councils Exposed to Corruption Due to Collapse of Local Auditing – After Accounting Firms Lobbied for Watchdog’s Abolition
Just one in nine local council audits are now conducted on time – which researchers blame on a privatised system
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One Million Teenagers Fail to Claim Child Trust Fund Money – After HMRC Steps Away from Notifying them of the Cash
A report by the Commons’ Public Accounts Committee says more should be done to help young adults trace their funds
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Banking Bias: The Glaring Hypocrisy of the Press Over Farage’s Account Closure
There is a stark contrast in the response to the closure of Nigel Farage’s Coutts account – and bank account closures of progressive organisations in 2015
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Faulty Connection: When Rishi Sunak Met the Warehouse Workers
A heavily-staged ‘PM Connect’ event did little to dispel impressions that Britain’s PM is deeply out of touch with voters
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‘You Can’t Live’: Apprentices are Paid Just £5.28 an Hour – and They’re Demanding a Raise
Mary Davenport (centre right), a former apprentice forced to drop out due to financial struggles, is speaking up about rock-bottom pay
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Expectation vs Reality: The Hard Hand Dealt Young People in 2023
We could be working 15-hour weeks, enjoying our free time, and living like people of the future. Matt Gallagher asks: Why aren’t we?
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Government Fraud Quadruples on Rishi Sunak’s Watch, New Report Reveals
HMRC contributed enormously to the rise in fraud after the then Chancellor approved tens of billions to be spent on pandemic support schemes
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France and Britain Need ‘Macronomics’
Despite the controversy, the French President’s economic proposals are far from the ‘Anglo Saxon’ model. Barnaby Towns argues that, when it comes to addressing inequality, the UK could learn from them
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Charity Staff on the Breadline: Non-Profit Employees Facing Real Terms Pay Cuts
Analysis for Byline Times reveals charity sector employees are themselves being pushed into poverty pay, Nic Murray reports. But staff are fighting back
