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Today’s news summary – Paper Talk If you are someone who reads every perspective of a story, here is a news summary of all of today’s front pages from today’s newspapers; summarised in a 2-minute read

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Rachel Reeves admits tax hikes will hit working people as IFS accuses chancellor of ‘undermining trust’ Rachel Reeves has admitted her tax-grabbing Budget will hit the pay packets of working people as the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) accused her of undermining trust in politicians. The chancellor was forced to accept that her decision to hike employers’ national insurance contributions would lead to workers being paid less. But, in a damning assessment of Ms Reeves’s claims to have protected workers in Wednesday’s Budget, IFS director Paul Johnson said she risked “further undermining trust” and that the measures would not raise…

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Starmer accused of lying to farmers as ‘tractor tax’ threatens to destroy countryside and increase cost of food Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of lying to farmers about wanting “a new relationship” with them after the Budget extended inheritance tax to family farms for the first time in history. The move means farms worth more than £1m are now subject to 20 per cent inheritance tax. Already the tax is being dubbed the “tractor tax” or the “Old McDonald tax” in some quarters and has been exacerbated by other measures in the Budget which have piled on costs for…

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