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The EU appears keen to strip Britain of its rebate
EU budget chief: UK rebate ‘should end’

by Peter Wozniak Britain’s rebate from its contributions to the EU ought to be repealed, according to the man in charge of the Union’s 140 billion euro budget. Janusz Lewandowski, in an interview with the German newspaper Handesblatt, argued that the time when it was appropriate for the UK to have its rebate had long… Read more »

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The traditional Pre-Budget report looks set to be axed
Osborne ‘to scrap’ the Pre-Budget report

By politics.co.uk staff The annual Pre-Budget Report (PBR) is set to be scrapped and replaced with short statements on Treasury forecasts, according to media reports. The chancellor is to abandon the practise, in place since Gordon Brown started at the Treasury in 1997, of producing the mid-year comprehensive reports on the government’s spending plans, and… Read more »