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This year has seen the biggest single wealth exodus ever recorded, and they are taking an estimated £70bn GBP out of the country with them, writes Jamila Robertson for CityAM. Rachel Reeves’ now historic Budget carried on where her last left off – bruising business, threatening jobs and further squeezing working people. It raised taxes by £26bn; saw a ‘mansion tax’ levied on all properties over £2m; the income tax threshold extended for a further three years; caps on ISAs and

Rachel Reeves has learnt nothing from her last Budget, writes . Jamila Robertson in her City AM column. This week, Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered a speech to set the context for her upcoming budget, which sent the FTSE tumbling by 57 points and the pound falling to a seven-month low.  Reeves’ upcoming Budget is a can she kicked down the road back in September, when 30-year gilts had reached their highest level since 1998. In her speech, 370 days after her last budget a

Rachel Reeves’ plans for a youth guarantee scheme and lifting the two-child benefit cap are not enough to tackle the spiralling welfare...

Nearly 12 per cent of people on universal credit are graduates. It’s time our universities stepped up by training students for the jobs...

Millennials make up the largest age cohort in many of the areas where the Conservatives need to shore up support. To win us back the...

For her column in CITY AM , Jamila Robertson suggests we give new Mayors taxation powers to stop the millionaire exodus. Today, voters...

Getting to grips with the welfare state must be a key priority. Not only is it the right thing to do to increase productivity and reduce...

In light of the highly publicised Grey Resignation, I shared my thoughts with Conservative Home on how we could woo over 50s back into...