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'Missed opportunity:' From taxes to airline fees, what does Hunt's Spring Budget mean for the planet?
Spring budget

'Missed opportunity:' From taxes to airline fees, what does Hunt's Spring Budget mean for the planet?

Spring Budget: Rent campaigners accuse Jeremy Hunt of 'landlord giveaway' capital gains tax cut
Jeremy Hunt slashed capital gains tax at the Spring Budget sparking fears landlords will sell up
Renting

Spring Budget: Rent campaigners accuse Jeremy Hunt of 'landlord giveaway' capital gains tax cut

Fat jokes and short-term thinking: Experts react to Jeremy Hunt's 'sticking plaster' Spring Budget
Jeremy Hunt delivering his 2024 spring budget
Spring Budget

Fat jokes and short-term thinking: Experts react to Jeremy Hunt's 'sticking plaster' Spring Budget

Tax cuts, vapes and fuel: What Jeremy Hunt's Spring Budget means for you and your bank account
Jeremy Hunt delivering his 2024 spring budget
Spring Budget

Tax cuts, vapes and fuel: What Jeremy Hunt's Spring Budget means for you and your bank account

Spring Budget: Jeremy Hunt abandons divisive 99% mortgage scheme
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt working on plans, portentially including 99% mortgages, ahead of the Spring Budget
Spring Budget

Spring Budget: Jeremy Hunt abandons divisive 99% mortgage scheme

Jeremy Hunt extends 'lifeline for families' household support fund for six months
Jeremy Hunt (right) faced calls to extend the Household Support fund
Spring budget

Jeremy Hunt extends 'lifeline for families' household support fund for six months

DWP sparks protests by disability activists over benefit sanctions and 'inhumane deaths'
DWP benefits protest
Disability benefits

DWP sparks protests by disability activists over benefit sanctions and 'inhumane deaths'

It's a 'surprise' more homeless children haven't died in temporary accommodation, charity says
55 children died while living in temporary accommodation
Homelessness

It's a 'surprise' more homeless children haven't died in temporary accommodation, charity says

BBC Radio 1 star Dean McCullough shares his experience of homelessness: 'You don't have to be lonely'
Youth homelessness

BBC Radio 1 star Dean McCullough shares his experience of homelessness: 'You don't have to be lonely'

Big Issue founder John Bird celebrates vendors at House of Lords – and vows to help end destitution
National Vendor Week

Big Issue founder John Bird celebrates vendors at House of Lords – and vows to help end destitution

RNLI at 200: Two centuries of quiet heroism and public affection
RNLI

RNLI at 200: Two centuries of quiet heroism and public affection

Should all 30-year-olds get a £10,000 'citizens inheritance'? This Tory peer thinks so
The great wealth transfer

Should all 30-year-olds get a £10,000 'citizens inheritance'? This Tory peer thinks so

Council tax will soar for millions in April. Here's how we got into this mess
council tax
Council tax

Council tax will soar for millions in April. Here's how we got into this mess

Life goes on more or less as normal for people in Taiwan – even amid a geopolitical crisis
World

Life goes on more or less as normal for people in Taiwan – even amid a geopolitical crisis

Jeremy Hunt, here's all the ways your Spring Budget can start to fix our broken country
Hunt with Autumn Statement
Politics

Jeremy Hunt, here's all the ways your Spring Budget can start to fix our broken country

What the disastrous 'Willy Wonka experience' tells us about AI and its 'pollution' of bad content
Artificial Intelligence

What the disastrous 'Willy Wonka experience' tells us about AI and its 'pollution' of bad content

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Every damning detail from ex-border inspector's reports the Home Office didn't want you to see
David Neal's reports are damning for the Home Office
Immigration

Every damning detail from ex-border inspector's reports the Home Office didn't want you to see

Rwanda asylum plan could cost taxpayer more than £500m. Here's how that could be much better spent
Rishi Sunak and James Cleverly have been trying to get the Rwanda scheme off the ground
A modest proposal

Rwanda asylum plan could cost taxpayer more than £500m. Here's how that could be much better spent

Sarah Everard inquiry: Cops accused of violence against women must be suspended, government told
sarah everard vigil
Social justice

Sarah Everard inquiry: Cops accused of violence against women must be suspended, government told

Number of people sleeping rough in England more than double than when Tories came to power
rough sleeping
Homelessness

Number of people sleeping rough in England more than double than when Tories came to power