Tag: Living
Chinese buyers not living in lockdown shake off EV price hikes
Guangzhou-based Xpeng is one of several Chinese electric car companies that's started to expand overseas.Feature China | Future Publishing | Getty Ima [...]
Cost of living: We cannot rule out a windfall tax, says minister
Simon Clarke will not confirm a levy on energy firms to tackle rising costs, but promises pragmatism.
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Cost of living: What are Rishi Sunak's options to ease the burden on households?
There are ways the chancellor could tackle the strain on people's pockets - but what do they cost?
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Cost of living: Calls to bring benefit and pension rises forward
Big increases are due next April but charities say soaring prices mean people need the money now.
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Cost of living: Police officers 'struggling' with low pay
A North Wales Police detective says she has to borrow money from her mother at the end of the month.
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Cost of living: Chancellor Rishi Sunak hints again at windfall tax u-turn
Labour, the SNP and the Liberal Democrats have all proposed using a windfall tax on oil and gas companies, whose profits have rocketed as the economy [...]
MP Rachel Maclean cost of living comments prompt death threat
Rachel Maclean's much-criticised comments about workers doing more hours were "taken out of context".
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Help must come, says former PM John Major on cost of living crisis
Sir John Major warns about rising prices, as a minister is criticised for advocating people working more hours.
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Cost of living: Labour to call vote on windfall tax for oil and gas companies
It is shameful not to raise extra money from oil and gas firms amid the rising cost of living, Ed Miliband says.
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Cost of living: Michael Gove denies split between PM and Treasury
Michael Gove has denied a split between the prime minister and Treasury on how to tackle the cost of living crisis.Speaking to BBC Breakfast in animat [...]
Cost of living: 1.5m UK households will struggle to pay bills – report
Rising prices and higher taxes are squeezing Britons' budgets, according to researchers.
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Will government do more sooner on cost of living?
Covid prompted a government intervention in the economy, with ideas such as furlough, that was so big you could see it from space - hundreds of billio [...]
Queen's Speech to focus on living costs and economy
Prince Charles will set out the government's plans after the Queen pulled out due to "mobility problems".
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Local Elections: Southampton MP blames cost of living crisis
The cost of living crisis has been blamed for the elections results in Southampton, a city MP said.The Conservatives have lost Southampton City Counci [...]
Boris Johnson on policies to deal with cost of living increases
Boris Johnson has said the government does not have “an unlimited number of shots to play” when dealing with the cost of living.But the prime minister [...]