Chancellor Rachel Reeves announces £22bn black hole in UK budget
Credit: PAAnd a 20 per cent VAT charge will be slapped on private schools for terms starting on or after January 1 2025.Only those on specific benefits like Pension Credit will qualify for up to £300 in heating bill help starting this year.It comes as the Chancellor today claimed to have found a series of financial timebombs left by the Tories that she insisted will force her to make tough choices on spending.
She told MPs: "Before the election, I said that we would face the worst inheritance since the Second World War."Roads that would never be built."They spent like there was no tomorrow, because they knew that someone else would pick up the bill and then in the election - and perhaps this is the most shocking part - they campaigned on a platform to do it all over again.
And junior doctors are in line for a monster 22 per cent wage hike over two years in a bid to end their persistent strike action that is crippling hospitals.
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