I posted this during the week but I'm doing it again because it's absolutely staggering.
@AngelaRayner can claim £40,000 in direct office expenses and a further £240,000 for "staff costs" etc.
She's also been gifted another quarter of a million quid from "supporters" to cover even more "office expenses".
In total it comes to over £500,000 per year.
Or £10,000 PER WEEK.
FOR OFFICE EXPENSES.
A UK pensioner is expected to survive on just £12,500 PER YEAR.
That's just 9 days worth of Angela Rayners "office expenses".
Are you OK with that?
Why is the media so lenient towards Sturgeon?
Viciously judgmental towards Boris while no angel herself.
Enjoyed exploiting Covid to score petty political points.
Wrong about almost everything. Left Scotland the druggie capital of Europe.
But, hey, she’s a progressive heroine!
Friendship between Dracula author Bram Stoker and Daily Mail columnist helped iconic vampire novel to global success, writer's family reveal trib.al/ALsLg5r
An Israeli strike captured on camera has killed three paramedics in Lebanon. Just 12 hours earlier, four other medics were killed.
Sky's @AlexCrawfordSky reports
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UK inflation was down in April, but will soon surge to 5pc and beyond – which will have seismic economic and political consequences
The consumer price index (CPI) grew 2.8pc during the year to last month, down from 3.3pc in March.
“We have the right economic plan,” opined Rachel Reeves, as the figures were released last week. “To change course now would risk our economic stability”. If only that were true.
Last month’s headline inflation drop was a blip, driven by one-off price adjustments detached from economic realities. Those factors will soon be reversed.
Growing price pressures will drive CPI inflation up over the coming months, in my view above 5pc. And if the Strait of Hormuz stays closed beyond the summer, blocking exports of oil, gas and fertiliser feedstocks from the Middle East, inflation could go much higher still.
My latest "Economic Agenda" column in @Telegraph
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‘Straight away you can start seeing problems.’
Economist Julian Jessop weighs up Reform UK’s plan to scrap income tax on overtime, believing it has good intentions but that it wouldn’t work.
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People have asked what Reform’s no tax on overtime means for the Armed Forces Reserves.
You won’t pay *any tax* on time served in the Reserves, where it’s on top of a full time day job.
This will be a huge boost to recruitment.
Thank you to those serving in the Reserves 🇬🇧
‘Intercepted by British Border Force vessel.’
GB News National Reporter @willgodley says the total number of small-boat arrivals is set to smash 1,000 over the Bank Holiday weekend.
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The no tax on overtime announcement from Reform yesterday is a *starting gun*.
The incentives in this country are totally BROKEN and upside down.
Break into our country?
Free stuff for life.
Steal from a struggling store? 0 consequences.
Toil away for the best part of your life? Taxed to the eyeballs to pay for those who refuse to.
Reform will transform the incentive structure to reward the very best of Britain and punish the worst.
It will be glorious.
Nigel Farage has pledged to axe income tax on overtime as he vows to “make work pay”.
If Reform UK wins the next general election, people who earn less than £75,000 and work overtime above a 40-hour week will pay no income tax on the extra hours.
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‘I attended council meetings two years prior to being elected…'
Kirklees councillor Tanisha Bramwell responds to her Reform colleague admitting to not knowing how the council works.
My phone was hacked by Moscow, says Farage: 'Deeply concerned' Reform leader claims Russian spies leaked details of £5million gift that could lead to ban from Commons trib.al/2w20nK8