taxcutting

Nigel Lawson, the long-serving Conservative chancellor whose radical tax-cutting Budgets of the late 1980s inspired a Tory generation, has died at the age of 91.Lord Lawson was an iconic figure for the Tory right and Rishi Sunak,…

During a lull in bustling lunchtime trade at Bury market in the north-west of England on Friday, stallholders Tony and Mary Sinacola mulled over the government’s radical tax-cutting “mini-Budget”. A few hours earlier Kwasi Kwarteng,…