HMRC said it will halt the changes admitting ‘more needs to be done’ to convince the public they are a good idea.

GDP rose by 0.2 per cent in the first month of the year, after slipping into a technical recession at the end of 2023.

A group of masked men have allegedly opened fire inside a home and assaulted a resident during a terrifying robbery in Sydney’s southwest.

Laying out the Tory pitch to voters, the Chancellor insisted that he believes lower taxes are the way to boost growth.

Whitehall sources told the Mail the Chancellor will press ahead with a second consecutive 2p cut in personal tax today, leaving the average worker £900 a year better off.

The Chancellor and Prime Minister are locked in last-minute talks this weekend as they bit to find the money to reduce the tax burden with months to go until the next general election.

Emergency crews were called at around 5pm on Friday to the incident in Clapham Common South Side, the service said.

The discovery ends an almost week-long high-profile search for the remains of entertainment journalist Jesse Baird, 26, and Qantas flight attendant Luke Davies, 29.

Police have launched a major search operation after a two-year-old boy who was with his family fell into a river in Leicestershire earlier this evening.

The Scottish suspects, identified only as ‘William’ and ‘John’, allegedly met with Burmese national Kyaw Zeyar, 50, for a business deal at an apartment block in Bangkok on February 13.