Price of homes soars by £14k in six months but experts fear it could fade as stamp duty holiday ends

Price of a home soars by £14k in just six months… but experts fear boom could fade away once stamp duty holiday ends Average price of a home in the UK jumped to record £252,211 at the end of 2020 Market was ‘turbocharged’ by Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s stamp duty holiday  Biggest regional annual rise was … Read more

Price of homes soars by £14k in six months but experts fear it could fade as stamp duty holiday ends

Price of a home soars by £14k in just six months… but experts fear boom could fade away once stamp duty holiday ends Average price of a home in the UK jumped to record £252,211 at the end of 2020 Market was ‘turbocharged’ by Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s stamp duty holiday  Biggest regional annual rise was … Read more

HENRY DEEDES watches as the Chancellor loses his bonhomie

Doe-eyed Rishi Sunak axed the fluffy bunny act: HENRY DEEDES watches as the Chancellor loses his bonhomie By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 23:27 GMT, 11 January 2021 | Updated: 09:27 GMT, 12 January 2021 Usually when Rishi Sunak announces he’s adding another couple of noughts to the country’s spiralling debt, he puts … Read more

Footfall in shops plunged 27 per cent last week as lockdown hammers economy

Footfall at shops plunged more than a quarter last week as the brutal lockdown hammers the economy. Total shopper numbers tumbled by 27.1 per cent in the seven days to January 9 compared to the previous week.  The grim figures from research group Springboard emerged as Rishi Sunak prepares to face MPs for the first … Read more

Protect struggling families from spring council tax rises, Keir Starmer tells Rishi Sunak

Protect struggling families hit by coronavirus economic collapse from council tax rises, Keir Starmer tells Rishi Sunak amid fears of bills surge in April Sunak confirmed councils can levy an extra 5 per cent onto tax bills in 2021-22 Decision came in the face of record public borrowing to support the country  Labour says 5% … Read more

ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Rishi Sunak turns to his vampire squid pals again for help

ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Rishi Sunak turns to his vampire squid pals again for help By Anna Mikhailova Deputy Political Editor For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:43 GMT, 10 January 2021 | Updated: 13:13 GMT, 10 January 2021 Rishi Sunak keeps the chumocracy chugging along with the appointment of yet another of his former Goldman Sachs … Read more

ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Rishi Sunak turns to his vampire squid pals again for help

ANNA MIKHAILOVA: Rishi Sunak turns to his vampire squid pals again for help By Anna Mikhailova Deputy Political Editor For The Mail On Sunday Published: 01:43 GMT, 10 January 2021 | Updated: 01:44 GMT, 10 January 2021 Rishi Sunak keeps the chumocracy chugging along with the appointment of yet another of his former Goldman Sachs … Read more

Rishi Sunak could delay tax rises until next autumn but will end Stamp Duty holiday in March

Rishi Sunak could delay tax rises until next autumn but will end Stamp Duty holiday in March amid warnings over scale of government borrowing during Covid crisis The Chancellor reportedly believes that it is the ‘wrong time’ to bring in tax rises Source added Mr Sunak has also rejected calls to extend the stamp duty … Read more

Covid UK: Rishi Sunak considers £3bn scheme to help small businesses

Rishi Sunak examining plans for a £3billion scheme to help a MILLION small business owners including plumbers, electricians and musicians unable to get furlough cash or company loans The Chancellor is looking at proposals for a Directors Income Support Scheme Would pay sole directors up to 80 per cent of lost profits for three months … Read more

Ex-Goldman Sachs banker Richard Sharp who used to be Rishi Sunak’s boss will be next BBC chairman

Multi-millionaire ex-Goldman Sachs banker Richard Sharp who used to be Rishi Sunak’s boss will be next BBC chairman Richard Sharp could be announced in the role as soon as Thursday, say reports The ex-Goldman Sachs banker was a superior of Rishi Sunak at investment firm   The 64-year-old has spent the last year as an unpaid … Read more