Nina Lloyd

1 day ago | aol.co.uk | Nina Lloyd |Eleanor Busby

Charities have welcomed the expansion of free school meals as a “first step” towards easing child poverty, but urged the Government to axe the two-child benefit cap as economists warned the scope of the change would be limited. Campaigners and school leaders said the change, which will see all pupils in families that claim universal credit in England made eligible for the scheme, will relieve pressure on household budgets.

2 days ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Nina Lloyd |Eleanor Busby

Charities have welcomed the expansion of free school meals as a “first step” towards easing child poverty, but urged the Government to axe the two-child benefit cap as economists warned the scope of the change would be limited. Campaigners and school leaders said the change, which will see all pupils in families that claim universal credit in England made eligible for the scheme, will relieve pressure on household budgets.

2 weeks ago | southwestfarmer.co.uk | Nina Lloyd

From April 2026, a 20% inheritance tax rate will be levied on agricultural assets worth more than £1 million, which were previously exempt. This is half the usual rate of 40%. In a report published on Friday (May 16), Efra called on the Government to push back announcing its final agricultural property relief (APR) and business property relief (BPR) reforms until October 2026, to come into effect in April 2027.

3 weeks ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | David Lynch |Nina Lloyd |Aine Fox

Rachel Reeves’s local Labour party will demand that the Chancellor abandons her plans to cut disability benefits. The Leeds West and Pudsey Constituency Labour Party (CLP), which campaigned to return Ms Reeves to Parliament in the general election as its local MP, has agreed to write to her “as soon as possible” to make clear it does not support the cuts. The local party branch passed a motion opposing the cuts, seen by the PA news agency, when it met this week.

3 weeks ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | George Thompson |David Lynch |Nina Lloyd

Kemi Badenoch insists Tories should not be written off at Welsh conferenceThe Conservative Party should not be written off yet, Kemi Badenoch has insisted. The Tory leader also suggested her party faces a long, hard battle to return to power and prominence as she spoke at the Welsh Conservative Conference in Llangollen, where she was compared to former prime minister Margaret Thatcher.