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The rapidly rising incomes of the super-rich are unjust and economically inefficient, according to the TUC. Not all of the UK's rich have their wealth in Great Britain In a pamphlet published on the eve of its annual conference,
But Schools Secretary Ed Balls insisted there was "still a lot to play for" and - in a message directed squarely at former Cabinet minister Charles Clarke - urged fellow Labour MPs to stick together and "stop jeering at the manager".
In an interview
Charles Clarke's warning that Labour is "destined to disaster if we go on as we are" was presumably not intended to strengthen Gordon Brown's hold on office. Paradoxically, though, it may have had that effect. The lack of any echo from the soundless
Peter Hogan, who took the helm at £24,000-a-year Loretto School, Musselburgh, this term, said the inflation-busting rises in fees of recent years threatened the charitable status of schools, which saves them thousands of pounds in tax every year.
He
This was an evening with Tony Benn. I wondered what made it quite so busy, why so many people had turned up to listen to a retired politician of 83. Maybe some of them had come, like me, out of a sense of feeling politically disorientated, to try to
Gordon Brown last night avoided a damaging rebellion by Labour MPs over a windfall tax on energy companies.
A rebel MP leading calls for suppliers to be hit with a one-off tax said that he no longer regarded it a "deal-breaker" in helping poor families
When will business start taking the Tories seriously? Certainly not after the week we've just had. Many in the wealth-creating area of the economy, who rely on their entrepreneurial instincts to thrive, are wondering where the political entrepreneurs
Gordon Brown has left the public finances heading for a budget deficit almost as large as the one that triggered the 1970s International Monetary Fund bail-out, financiers have warned.
Britain will have to borrow some £90?billion within two years as
HSBC, Britain's largest bank, is reviewing whether it should retain its headquarters in London, piling pressure on the Government amid an exodus of companies angered by the uncertainty over tax policy.
HSBC's review, which is thought to have begun