Ryan Capperauld
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🚨EXC: Foreign Office staff attended an event at the Iranian embassy to celebrate the Islamic revolution weeks after the regime massacred thousands of its people Civil servants heard a speech from the ambassador praising Iran’s “remarkable accomplishments” @tweetsbyames Scoop
🚨 NEW: Political journalists are "furious" over Government plans to change media access from January Afternoon lobby briefings will be scrapped and some morning briefings will be replaced with Minister-led TV press conferences, where content creators can also ask questions
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Rachel Reeves will announce a stealth tax raid on retirement savings, a move experts said would reduce take-home pay and cut the size of pension pots The chancellor is expected to use the budget to limit a tax break on pension contributions for both employers and employees to raise up to £2 billion a year Reeves has decided not to cut pension lump-sum withdrawals due to concerns about the impact on pensioners. It means people who retire will be able to continue making tax-free drawdown payments worth 25 per cent of a total pension pot up to a maximum of £268,275 The chancellor will instead target salary sacrifice schemes as she attempts to fill a gap in the public finances of up to £30 billion Reeves is expected to use the budget to cap the amount of someone’s salary that can be sacrificed without incurring national insurance payments at £2,000 a year Any pension contributions over that level would result in an employee paying the full rate of national insurance of 8 per cent on a salary of less than £50,000 and 2 per cent on income above that There are concerns that the crackdown will penalise people for “trying to do the right thing” and save for their retirement as well as being detrimental to company pension schemes thetimes.com/article/2f1a32…
🚨 WATCH: A delivery driver says migrant sex offender Hadush Kebatu waited outside HMP Chelmsford for 90 minutes before staff told him to head to the train station "He told me he had been deported... [prison staff] were saying he had to go on this train to get to destination"
