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2025November › 28

Chancellor

7 months ago

In the Budget this week, the Chancellor stuck to her plan to hit family businesses and farms worth more than £1million with death duties of 20 per cent from April next year.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered a series of extraordinary grim warnings about the state of the government's books in the run-up to the Budget.
Tracey Smith, pictured, a trans woman, sent Chancellor's sister Ellie Reeves - her local MP - a stream of emails and voicemails amounting to harassment.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz's strained government agreed to pursue larger pension reforms and seek exemptions on the EU's ban on CO2-emitting cars.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves' Budget package was widely regarded as unfair and unaffordable, according to a poll.
Rachel Reeves' Tory-supporting uncle Terry Smith, 73, has attacked his niece's Budget for 'benefits people' -declaring: 'I feel she and the government are totally out of their depth'.
So what do today's inhabitants of Benefits Street in Birmingham - 11 years on from that now-infamous documentary - really think of the Chancellor's cash grab?
The Chancellor had promised to pay for a reduction in business rates for smaller firms by hiking taxes on larger properties to 'level the playing field between the high street and online giants'.

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