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Parents haggle with private schools over fees as VAT pushes up costs
Financial advisers say families now band together to negotiate a group discount for their children as 20% tax rate bites
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Thames Water creditors would launch board shake-up if utility avoids nationalisation
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Treasury brings in expert to review business rates for UK pubs and hotels
Treasury asks ‘guru’ to review pubs and hotels’ claims of unfair taxes
Burnham visits Ukraine with pledge of support for long-range missile construction
Burnham to pledge support for long-range missile construction in Ukraine
Starmer considered letting 100,000 young Europeans come to UK every year
Healey’s first Budget is a chance for radical change
Burnham to allow English mayors to ‘call in’ big local planning decisions
Why is the far right so obsessed with knights?
Why more young workers are leaving the UK behind
Burnham must reveal his hand on immigration
Burnham economic adviser O'Neill rules out government job
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