Cash in hand. Start rich to get richer.
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When the excitement over cabinet resignations and the sugar tax subsides, the 2016 Budget acts as a blueprint for making the wealthy wealthier.
And for that reason, I’m out.
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Behind this spat lie two very different ideas about what it means to be a Tory in the 21st Century.
Hola cola.
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George’s medicine for health crisis is welcome, but not marvellous.
Exit stage right for the quiet man.
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The general public isn’t paying nearly as much attention to this spat as political junkies think – and that’s what matters in the referendum.
Bag-carrier George.
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Why stop at 17%?
Sweet sorrow.
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Why Britain’s obesity crusader could be heading for disappointment.
Remember everyone, we exit, but we don’t Brexit.
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George Osborne was eager to paint a rosy picture for potentially eurosceptic small businesses. But he could have gone further.
Tough crowd.
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Many predicted he’d crumble, but the Labour leader’s first budget was at least rousing.
The Chancellor inspects the Osbot 3000 production line.
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A close look at Osborne’s tactics suggest he is not destined for the top, but remains a consummate Conservative.
Is art being sidelined?
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Art has been sidelined and is in danger of only becoming a subject for the privileged.
HSBC has decided not to walk.
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The options for a move to Hong Kong were not as attractive as they might have appeared.
You’re wrong m'lawd.
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Lord Lawson thinks companies should partly be taxed on their sales. He’s very wrong.
George Osborne shows how it’s done.
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Why Brexit would make a recovery in UK manufacturing much more difficult.
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When John McDonnell read a quote from Chairman Mao in parliament, jaws hit the floor.
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Defence wins, NHS survives and local government faces massive regional inequalities.
George Osborne.
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Treating the sick is not sustainable. We need to stop them getting sick in the first place. So why is the government cutting public health budgets?
George Osborne and Jim O'Neil, Commercial Secretary to the Treasury and a former Goldman Sachs investment chief, enjoy a contract signing in Beijing earlier this year.
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An often ignored political role devised in 1571 tells you all you need to know about who will benefit as new power plants are built.
Right of centre.
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Until this week’s tax credits debacle, the Conservatives have performed exquisitely the role of the reasonable and pragmatic English party that swears by its faith in “whatever works”. So far, under the…
In touch with the people?
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The upper house has humiliated the government, and now there’ll be hell to pay – or will there?
Radioactive waste.
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Is George Osborne deploying the ‘Deep State’ to secure a long-term nuclear arsenal for Britain?