Faisal Islam
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Triple lock move is significant, but it's a gamble (opens the original)
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It was a significant announcement from Prime Minister Andy Burnham on his plans for the triple lock after the general election. It will reverberate well beyond the hall. For months, I have heard suggestions that Andy Burnham was warm to the idea that the triple lock as we know it had to go. I had expected him to try to forge a political consensus on this thorny issue at this stage, but he has gone further than that. He has tried to take the sting out of the politics of his decision by tying it t
UK tries to stop Trump's diesel export ban (opens the original)
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The UK is in talks with US authorities over a potential stoppage of diesel exports and has started preparing for a ban, Chancellor John Healey has told BBC News. Diesel prices in the UK reached a new high on Monday due to supply pressures springing from the US-Israel conflict with Iran and Russia's war with Ukraine. Fuel prices are rising globally and US President Donald Trump has threatened to ban diesel exports, stating at the weekend: "We're thinking about it very seriously." Healey, who admi
Why the PM could finally drop the triple lock pension pledge - AOL (opens the original)
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The prime minister's Sunday morning BBC interview set hares running when it comes to the future of a policy once seen as politically untouchable. The timing of the PM's new social care plan sparked suggestions the government could be about to signal the death knell to the state pension triple lock after 16 years. Andy Burnham said he will put forward tough decisions to fund a new national care service as part of Labour's next general election manifesto, seeking a mandate to make the changes next
Why the PM could finally drop the triple lock pension pledge (opens the original)
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The prime minister's Sunday morning BBC interview set hares running when it comes to the future of a policy once seen as politically untouchable. The timing of the PM's new social care plan sparked suggestions the government could be about to signal the death knell to the state pension triple lock after 16 years. Andy Burnham said he will put forward tough decisions to fund a new national care service as part of Labour's next general election manifesto, seeking a mandate to make the changes next
Budget 2026: The two big calls Chancellor John Healey has to make (opens the original)
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"It is tough," John Healey admitted to me earlier this month when I asked him if there had been too much doom-mongering? "Conflicts, uncertainty, driving up inflation, driving up interest rates. But we've got great strengths. We've got good reasons to be confident about the future of Britain," he insisted. The new scheme to try and help young people get on the property ladder, announced on Saturday, was aimed at boosting confidence in the economy. But the chancellor is now facing two big decisio
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