Browsing: UK politics

The Guardian says the UK will impose an asset freeze on Russia’s largest bank, place sanctions on eight more oligarchs and end imports of oil and coal by next year, the foreign secretary has said.

The Guardian says Rishi Sunak’s multi-millionaire wife claims non-domicile status, it has emerged, which allows her to save millions of pounds in tax on dividends collected from her family’s IT business empire.

The Guardian says about 50 Tory MPs could force the government to toughen up its ban on conversion practices by backing a move to extend the protections to transgender people.

The Metro says the Government has been forced to cancel a landmark international LGBT+ conference after it was revealed transgender people will be excluded from a conversion therapy ban, it is understood.

The Independent says the leader of the Liberal Democrats has said the national insurance rise comes “at the wrong moment” amid the cost-of-living crisis, as the tax hike for millions for workers kicked in.

The Independent says Cabinet minister Sajid Javid has repeatedly dodged questions of whether Boris Johnson presided over “widespread criminality” in No 10 as the Metropolitan Police continue their partygate probe.

The Guardian says it was one of the Conservatives’ most controversial cuts: waging war on the UK’s “benefit culture” by restricting social security payments that supposedly enabled “welfare scroungers” to have large families they could ill-afford.

The Guardian says ministers are refusing to disclose any pictures taken by official No 10 photographers of illegal gatherings held inside Downing Street.

BBC News says the burden of tax falling on workers and employers has increased as a hotly-debated rise in National Insurance payments takes effect.

The Metro says Chancellor Rishi Sunak has asked the Royal Mint to create the UK government’s first ever NFT.