News Round-Up

• “Rachel Reeves refuses to rule out more hikes after £40 billion ‘tax bomb’” – Rachel Reeves warned her £40 billion “tax bomb” on businesses and the middle classes could be just the start as she refused to rule out further tax hikes, reports the Mail.
• “Families face 70% tax on pensions in Reeves’s inheritance raid” – Families could be hit with death taxes of almost 70% after the Chancellor changed the rules around inheriting pension pots, says the Telegraph.
• “Inheritance tax to hit twice as many families under Labour” – The number of grieving families being hit by inheritance tax will double by the end of the decade under sweeping reforms by Labour, reports the Telegraph.
• “Extra 7.8 million people will be dragged into higher tax bands by 2029, says OBR” – Almost eight million extra people will be dragged into higher tax bands despite Rachel Reeves’s commitment to raise allowances in line with prices, says the Telegraph.
• “Entrepreneurs break down on TV after hike in National Insurance” – An entrepreneur has broken down on live television over the hike in National Insurance which hairdressers say will force them to cut jobs, reduce salaries and put up prices, reports the Mail.
• “Treasury accused of peddling ‘untrue nonsense’ in Budget document” – The Treasury has been accused of making “nonsense” claims that are “clearly not true” in a document setting out Rachel Reeves’s maiden Budget, according to the Telegraph.
• “Well done Rachel Reeves, you’ve just obliterated the rental market” – The Government’s stamp duty rise will bring in more problems than it does tax income, says the Secret Landlord in the Telegraph.
• “Borrowing costs surge as markets turn on Reeves” – Traders are dumping U.K. assets amid fears that the tax-and-spend Budget will fail to boost growth, reports the Telegraph.
• “The OBR’s damning Budget verdict gives the Tories ammunition for years” – Labour pledged its devotion to the OBR, supposedly the guardian of fiscal rectitude. It is about to face the consequences, says Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph.
• “Why should we trust the IMF?” – Is the IMF biased towards Labour? asks Ross Clark in the Spectator.
• “Starmer and Reeves have surrendered control to the bureaucrats” – The effect of the Budget is a huge transfer of resources from the private sector to the public sector, writes Sam Ashworth-Hayes in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer plots nanny state crackdown on milkshakes” – The Government has announced it is considering applying a sugar tax to milky coffee drinks and bottled milkshakes as part of a push to solve the obesity crisis, reports the Telegraph.
• “Private schools to sue Government over VAT raid” – The Independent Schools Council, a group representing 1,400 private schools, will press ahead with plans for a legal challenge against the Government’s introduction of VAT from January, reveals the BBC.
• “Will Keir Starmer get me banned from football games?” – Keir Starmer’s Football Bill threatens fan freedoms by enforcing strict “woke” standards on clubs, risking bans for those with dissenting views, writes Toby in the Spectator.
• “Britain is now a safe haven for the world’s criminals” – In the Telegraph, Guy Dampier presents three stories – all of which broke within just three days this week – that reveal just how broken our immigration system is.
• “Ministers should have known ‘within hours’ about ricin found in Southport suspect’s home” – Counter terrorism and biological weapons experts say that ministers should have been told “within hours” that the deadly toxin ricin had been recovered from the home of the suspect in the Southport killings, according to the Telegraph.
• “The strange silence around the Southport attacks” – In the Spectator, Douglas Murray discusses the trend in British public life to downplay or delay revealing the motivations of attackers, especially when cases might be linked to jihadism or immigration.
• “Girl, 16, threw rocks at police ‘to impress boy’ she followed to a riot” – A 16 year-old girl’s lawyer told the court she threw rocks at police after following a boy she had a crush on to a riot, hoping to impress him, according to the Mail.
• “Rioter who died in prison hanged himself, inquest hears” – An inquest has heard that a 61 year-old grandfather, who died in prison after being locked up for his part in the riots, hanged himself, reports the Mail.
• “Met officer who uploaded child abuse videos avoids prison” – A former Metropolitan Police officer who confessed to uploading child abuse images of young girls while at work has dodged prison, says the Mail.
• “Radiohead’s Thom Yorke storms off stage after being heckled by pro-Palestinian protester” – Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke stormed out of a show after clashing with an anti-Israel protester – calling the heckler a “coward” who should come up onstage and say it to his face, according to the NY Post.
• “‘Silent prayer’ breaches of abortion clinic ‘buffer zones’ will land offenders unlimited fines” – People who engage in silent prayer in protest at abortion face unlimited fines if they breach buffer zones around clinics, reports the Telegraph.
• “Race to build Britain’s first mini-nukes delayed again in Budget” – Ministers have delayed the competition to build Britain’s first mini-nuclear power plants, amid “tortuously slow” decision-making in Whitehall, says the Telegraph.
• “Ozone layer hole is the 7th-smallest since 1992 and may close by 2066” – Scientists say the hole in the ozone layer above the North Pole is at the seventh smallest size since CFCs were banned in 1992, according to the Mail.
• “Demand to return to office is ‘dismissing our humanity’, say Amazon staff” – Hundreds of Amazon staff have complained that executives are “dismissing their humanity” by demanding they return to the office five days per week, reports the Telegraph.
• “Donald Trump overtakes Kamala Harris in final Daily Mail election poll” – Former President Donald Trump has overtaken Kamala Harris in the final DailyMail.com/J.L. Partners national poll before Election Day, with a three-point lead over the Vice President.
• “ABC accidentally declares Kamala Harris has won election in Pennsylvania” – An ABC station ignited a flurry of conspiracy theories after it aired what appeared to be official election results for Pennsylvania that showed Kamala Harris easily winning the key swing state – more than a week before Election Day, according to the NY Post.
• “‘I cried when Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 – but here’s why I’m now voting for Trump’” – “Trump’s 2016 victory shocked progressives like myself – but after digging deeper than media narratives, I learnt why we were so wrong,” says Meghan Murphy in the Telegraph.
• “Joe Biden bites babies at White House Halloween party” – Videos of President Joe Biden playfully biting several costumed babies at the White House Halloween party have gone viral on social media, reports Newsweek.
• “Javier Milei sacks Foreign Minister for backing Cuba in UN vote” – Argentina’s President Javier Milei has sacked his Foreign Minister after he voted in favour of lifting the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba at the United Nations, says the BBC.
• “Justin Welby accused of ‘abandoning Church of England doctrine’ over same-sex relationship comments” – The Archbishop of Canterbury says that he now believes “all sexual activity should be within a committed relationship… whether it’s straight or gay”, reports the Telegraph.
• “King believed only one sect of Christianity ‘not corrupted by political correctness’, letter reveals” – A newly uncovered letter reveals that the King once praised the Orthodox Church as the only Christians “not corrupted by loathsome political correctness”, says the Times.
• “National Trust blocks referendum on voting system which ‘stifles debate’” – The National Trust has blocked a referendum on its controversial voting system which has been blamed for “stifling debate”, reports the Telegraph.
• “Deference overdone” – Cultural kowtowing to indigenous groups has turned respect into ritual guilt, sapping dignity and sense, writes John Macnab in the New Conservative.
• “They are scrubbing the internet right now” – Archive.org has stopped taking images of content on all platforms. We have gone a long time since this service has chronicled the internet, says the Brownstone Institute’s Jeffrey A. Tucker.
• “‘We will not raise tax on working people’” – On X, political commentator Alex Armstrong has compiled a montage of Labour bigwigs insisting they won’t raise taxes on working people – only to do exactly that.

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