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Portrait of the week

Portrait of the week: Rising inflation, electric car targets and a tax on flatulent livestock

23 November 2024

9:00 AM

23 November 2024

9:00 AM

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Thousands of farmers protested in Westminster against inheritance tax on farms. Tesco, Amazon, Greggs and 76 other chains belonging to the British Retail Consortium said that costs introduced by October’s Budget ‘will make job losses inevitable and higher prices a certainty’. The annual rate of inflation rose to 2.3 per cent from 1.7

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