Healey pledges cheaper marmalade and gherkins in pre-Budget package of 'everyday fixes'

Full list of food items to become cheaper under new UK Budget

MORE than 100 food products are set to have import tariffs removed under new measures announced in the UK Budget.

Another Labour Benefits Street Budget

Labour Chancellor John Healey has hit struggling workers, savers and landlords as he drives the tax burden to a new record high to fund energy bailouts and a mushrooming welfare bill in his Budget today.

Lancaster MP welcomes new Budget’s introduction of paternity pay for self-employed dads

Lancaster MP Cat Smith has welcomed the expansion of paternity pay to self-employed fathers and non-birthing parents for the very first time in the new Budget.

Tariffs on imported goods ‘could save average household £21 a year’

The government is hailing its ‘everyday fixes’ - small changes which it claims will help people caught up in the cost of living crisis.

St Helens MP welcomes paternity pay boost for self-employed dads

St Helens MP David Baines has welcomed plans to introduce paternity pay for self-employed fathers and partners, ahead of the Autumn Budget.

Autumn Budget 2026: In defence of cheaper gherkins, Ozempic

Ahead of the Autumn Budget 2026, and the threat of cheaper gherkins for all, Adam Bloodworth on his love for the humble pickled vegetable, which is both delightfully crunchy and a hack to health My housemate Will has always been the sort of man with impossible levels of fitness. So when I started a new [...]