Deborah Richards

@HMRCgovuk Applied via the app early May...still no refund!

Remember getting a letter about a tax refund but didn’t do anything about it? Last year, almost 1 million people didn’t claim back the money they’re owed. Download the HMRC app to check. 📲 gov.uk/guidance/downl…

It wasn't Reeves who kept income tax thresholds frozen for the last five years! That was successive Conservative Chancellors. She will stick to their plan to keep it frozen until 2026/27 then she says raise it with inflation. It makes £40bn a year for Treasury.

'Wake Me Up Before You Go Go' by Wham was released nearer to the end of the Second World War than to today. Happy New Year everyone!

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@acottageofbooks Perfect for Christmas 🎅

Good morning! Here is a weekend giveaway. Win a copy of Home for Christmas and a mini chocolate selection pack. Repost & follow to enter. UK only. Closes 09/12/24 at 11.59pm.

Happy Friday! This week I’m giving away a copy of The Christmas Tree Farm and a packet of Little robins. RT and follow to enter. UK only. Closes 24/11/24 at 11.59pm.

Please please please donate you don’t need me to tell you what an amazing cause Billy is doing this for gofundme.com/f/rideagainstt…

Right listen here. A staycation is where you stay at home and visit local tourist sites etc. Basically act as if you are holiday whilst staying at home. If you drive to Cornwall or somewhere else in the UK that is a holiday not a staycation.

Laughed out loud. Too clever. #DadsArmy

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A former government chief scientific adviser as science minister. A businessman with years of experience in rehabilitation as prisons minister. A barrister with years of experience as attorney general. A focus on specialism, domain knowledge and expertise.

Bookmark this: The election of the Green Party leader to Parliament with 4 MPs will be more important to the dynamics of this Government than the election of the Reform Party leader to Parliament with 4 MPs….

This.

Just to say that within minutes of Kate Kniveton having lost her seat, she messaged me to ask me to carry on her work on family courts. Not my party, but that my friends, is what a decent representative would do.

The Green Party have as many seats as Reform so let's hope they get the same coverage as Farage going forward.

@MoneySavingExp Just check that your phone isn't locked before you travel...I tried to use an e-sim in New Zealand and discovered that it wouldn't work as my phone was locked to EE.

If you're heading outside the EU and want to use your mobile data, an eSim could save you money. We take you through what an eSim is, how you can get one and if they're worth it ⬇️ moneysavingexpert.com/mobiles/what-i…

Headline inflation is now 2%. But since it was last 2% in July 2021 the price of things we buy has risen by 20% and pay by around 18%. And Universal credit main rate has fallen by 4% (it was boosted during Covid). No wonder we don't feel better off - we're not.

It's good and important to have the BBC and other British media reporting about the Far Right making gains in Europe. Yet when the same thing happens at home, it gets normalised. It is time to look at #Farage in the same way. Stop inviting him as a political entertainer. Still.

Keir Starmer, asked why his manifesto doesn't include any surprises, said: "It's not about rabbits out of a hat, not about pantomime. I’m running as the candidate to be prime minister, not to run the circus."