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British politician and current Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1979)
An investigation by Declassified UK found that roughly 180 current Members of Parliament have received money or hospitality from pro‑Israel lobby groups or affiliated individuals, concentrated chiefly...
Declassified UK’s investigations identify roughly 180 of 650 MPs in the last parliament as having accepted funding, hospitality or trips from pro‑Israel organisations, individuals or Israeli state bod...
UK politicians confirmed to have spoken at World Economic Forum events in the past five years include Foreign Secretary David Cameron and Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon at Riyadh 2024, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt...
Claims that Rachel Reeves "lied" about the scale of the fiscal hole before the November 2025 Budget hinge on an Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) timeline showing forecasts improved after earlier...
The UK does not currently operate a broad, formal individual “exit charge” like the capital gains exit taxes used in Australia or Canada, but proposals and recent policy tweaks mean when their UK tax ...
Donald Trump’s frequency of false or misleading statements is not directly addressed by the three supplied analyses; none provides a quantitative comparison between Trump and other politicians, so . T...
The claim that "a ‘brave MP’ wiped the floor with Rachel Reeves & Labour during a House of Commons session overran the facts: what happened was a high‑profile, emotionally charged PMQs in which Chance...
Declassified UK’s investigations show pro‑Israel groups, individuals and Israeli institutions have given over £1m in donations and hospitality to UK politicians since around 2020, with particular dono...
Reporting identifies the £22bn figure as an Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) estimate of the shortfall Reeves must fill ahead of the November 26 Budget; that number is repeated widely in coverage bu...
Labour has repeatedly said there is a £22bn “black hole” in this year’s public finances and attributes it to the previous Conservative government; the Conservatives have publicly disputed that figure,...
Parliamentary parties and individual MPs have repeatedly cited expert critiques of large “£22bn” figures in two distinct contexts: a £22bn shortfall in public finances discussed around Chancellor Rach...
Conservative politicians, notably Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, and the Liberal Democrats have publicly criticised Labour’s recent fiscal management, framing the government’s Budget and related speeches ...
The reported in UK public finances presents a material fiscal challenge that officials must address through a mix of spending restraint, tax changes, or increased borrowing; the Institute for Fiscal S...
Labour-era tax measures including a reintroduced and proposals like a 2p “switch” from employee National Insurance to income tax were presented by think-tanks and embedded in the Autumn Budget 2024 as...
The available analyses attribute the UK budget deficit under Labour primarily to a mix of , with policy choices in the Autumn Budget 2024 — notably a near £70bn spending rise and around £40bn of tax c...
The core claim is that the UK government is , a plan reportedly mirroring similar European Union discussions and framed as consistent with international law and economic prudence . Coverage across the...