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Companies roundup: Tory tax cuts & Royal Mail results

Tax cuts, International Distributions Services (IDS) and Ithaca Energy (ITH) Rishi Sunak is preparing a £2.4bn tax cut for pensioners, in a bid to boost his difficult election campaign. The Tories said, if they win the election, they would increase the personal tax allowance for pensioners every year, so it rises in …

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Victorian Plumbing – sales flat, gross margin up

Free cash flow up by a third Increased proportion of own brand sales Victorian Plumbing (VIC) delivered flat half-year revenues on a like-for-like basis and a 2 per cent rise in completed orders through the period. That’s a reasonable enough outcome given where we are in the interest rate cycle, …

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Minister refuses to rule out future king George and other royal princes and princesses being called up for National Service when they turn 18 amid row over Rishi Sunak’s election pledge to make teens spend a year in the military or do unpaid weekend work

Young royals including the future king George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis would be expected to do National Service alongside regular teenagers when they turn 18, a senior minister suggested today.  Anne-Marie Trevelyan said ‘the vast majority of our young people’ would be expected to turn out for the mandatory …

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Should the Royal Family be made to do National Service? Vote in our poll as minister refuses to rule out Prince George, Louis and Princess Charlotte being called up

Questions around whether the royal family should be made to partake in National Service have arisen after Rishi Sunak announced plans to revive the scheme. Prince George, Prince Louis, and Princess Charlotte will be expected to undertake the scheme when they turn 18, with details confirming that there will be …

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