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Budget 2017: Pensioners have been overlooked yet again – EXPRESS COMMENT

Thu, 23 Nov 2017 08:10:00 +0000

WELL, it could have been worse. In the face of intense pressure Chancellor Philip Hammond managed to create a Budget that carried enough positives to face down his critics, while – as far as we can tell at this early stage – managing to avoid the elephant traps both he and previous incumbents of Number 11 have fallen into in the past. But two areas stand out.

No teenage girl would have told Keith Partridge to go away, says VIRGINIA BLACKBURN

Thu, 23 Nov 2017 07:45:00 +0000

OH NO, not David Cassidy. It was 2016 that was supposed to be the year the Grim Reaper took his toll on the denizens of Planet Celeb, but the loss of not a single one of them, not even George Michael, gave me the pang I felt on hearing of the death of Keith Partridge.

Wealth creation must extend beyond London and the South-east, says DAVID SHAND

Thu, 23 Nov 2017 07:38:00 +0000

PHILIP HAMMOND kept his audience waiting before pulling his stamp duty “rabbit” out of his hat and played up to his ironic nickname “Box Office Phil” with his proposals to develop more mathematicians.

Budget 2017: Philip Hammond delivered an effective package of measures, says LEO MCKINSTRY

Thu, 23 Nov 2017 07:07:00 +0000

PHILIP Hammond would be the ideal Chancellor for normal economic times.

Budget 2017: No wonder Corbyn turned into a party pooper, says MACER HALL

Wed, 22 Nov 2017 21:20:00 +0000

PHILIP Hammond shrugged off his dry-as-dust reputation today to turn himself into Westminster's Mr Bountiful.

Good news for first-time buyers and some motorists in Budget 2017, says HARVEY JONES

Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

CROWD-pleasing personal finance giveaways were in short supply in the Budget, which unusually, offered nothing at all to pensioners and savers.

Boris Johnson blundered, but don't forget about the Iranian government, says FERGUS KELLY

Wed, 22 Nov 2017 08:10:00 +0000

IT WAS a blunder on Boris Johnson’s part to say that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British woman jailed in Iran, had been training journalists.

Philip Hammond is right on the unemployed, says ANN WIDDECOMBE

Wed, 22 Nov 2017 07:44:00 +0000

Oh dear, the Hammond bashing season is back in the run-up to the budget. The Chancellor is under fire for saying “there are no unemployed people”. That, of course, would be spectacularly stupid if uttered as a general comment on the economy but it wasn’t.

Theresa May must STOP more Brexit billions from going to Brussels - EXPRESS COMMENT

Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:01:00 +0000

ONE might have thought it would be difficult to match the Remainers’ plots to ignore the Brexit referendum result.

A budget for both the young and the elderly? - EXPRESS COMMENT

Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:01:00 +0000

IT is a good job that Chancellor Philip Hammond has a thick skin.