I suspect this will be a completely conventional Labour tax-and-spend Budget, a staging post for Burnham to call an early election next year and stand on an outright socialist manifesto.
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Tony Redondo, founder of Newquay-based Cosmos Currency Exchange, said every wobble in the pound affected the income of pensioners living abroad.
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Tony Redondo, said years of high living costs and increased borrowing costs had left households struggling to manage their finances.
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Just over a week ahead of the UK Budget, the Pound is trading at its highest level against the Euro since May 2025 and at a 4-week high against the US Dollar.
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British families sending a child to study in the US should plan their currency exchanges early or risk paying substantially more.
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The Budget lands on 28 October. I wanted to hear from people who actually run things, so I put five questions to a group of professional contacts based around the UK and asked for honest answers, not polite ones.
They delivered.
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“I never allow myself to hold an opinion on anything that I don’t know the other side’s argument better than they do”
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"Fixed thresholds are admitted to be a barrier to growth, yet frozen income tax bands are weaponised to raise revenue through fiscal drag."
Key details of proposal to end personal tax allowance £12,570 freeze | Personal Finance | Finance | Express.co.uk
Major personal tax allowance £12,570 update as Bank of England says 'should rise automatically'
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Despite oil prices slipping back below $100/b, nosebleed refiner margins (aka crack spread) will keep pump prices high, especially for diesel. Also the price refiners usually pay, is not the first futures contract the market watches, but the c.$135 spot rate shown as red below.
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The Pound has shed more than 3% against the US Dollar over the past 30 days and is now at its lowest level against the greenback since June, less than five weeks before this Labour government's third Budget. It looks increasingly exposed to further declines.






