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Britain faces ‘a return to austerity’ with £4billion cut, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies

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Britain faces another tax hike due to a £4billion black hole in Rishi Sunak’s Budget spending plans, an influential think tank warned today. The Institute for Fiscal Studies said the shortfall for the 2022−23 financial year went ‘entirely unmentioned’ in the Chancellor’s speech to the Commons on March 3. If the spending plan is followed … Read more

Up to 50 hotels across Britain benefit from £4billion ten-year contract to house asylum seekers 

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Casually tapping on their smartphones and smoking in the sunshine, the young men gathered outside the once grand, but now slightly downmarket, hotel appeared carefree and relaxed.  Their untroubled, if somewhat bored, demeanour is perhaps no surprise.  Having successfully reached the UK as asylum seekers, they are now guests of the British taxpayer with free … Read more