• Housing secretary और housing minister इस विचार की आलोचना करने वाले नवीनतम व्यक्ति हैं, जिसे No 10 ने भी खारिज कर दिया है।
• Senior ministers ने निजी क्षेत्र के rents को एक साल के लिए फ्रीज़ करने के विचार की कड़ी आलोचना की है, Guardian द्वारा यह खुलासा किए जाने के 48 घंटों से भी कम समय में कि Rachel Reeves इस पर विचार कर रही थीं।
• Steve Reed, housing secretary, और Matthew Pennycook, housing minister, इस विचार की आलोचना करने वाले नवीनतम सरकारी चेहरे बन गए हैं, जिसे No 10 द्वारा खारिज कर दिया गया है।
West End में एक प्रशंसित, Olivier-विजेता प्रदर्शन के बाद, Tim Rice और Andrew Lloyd Webber का म्यूजिकल रिवाइवल New York में स्थानांतरित होगा। महीनों की अटकलों के बाद, पुरस्कार विजेता Evita रिवाइवल आधिकारिक तौर पर वसंत 2027 में Broadway में स्थानांतरित होगा। West End रन में Rachel Zegler मुख्य भूमिका में थीं, जिसके लिए उन्होंने Olivier पुरस्कार जीता, और वह इस रिवाइवल के साथ New York जाएँगी। कार्यकर्ता और अभिनेत्री Eva Perón की Tim Rice और Andrew Lloyd Webber की संगीतमय कहानी पर आधारित इस सफल नई प्रस्तुति का निर्देशन Jamie Lloyd ने किया है, जिन्होंने इससे पहले Sunset Boulevard के रिवाइवल के लिए Tony जीता था।
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• लॉर्ड्स समिति का कहना है कि चांसलर और उनके हालिया पूर्ववर्तियों ने खुद के लिए पैंतरेबाज़ी की बहुत कम गुंजाइश छोड़ी है।
• हाउस ऑफ लॉर्ड्स की एक समिति की रिपोर्ट के अनुसार, रेचेल रीव्स को अपने राजकोषीय नियमों के खिलाफ "काफी बड़ा" बफर रखने का लक्ष्य रखना चाहिए, क्योंकि ब्रिटेन का सार्वजनिक ऋण एक अस्थिर trajectory पर है।
• चांसलर ने पिछले साल के बजट में कर बढ़ाए ताकि राजकोषीय नियमों के खिलाफ "हेडरूम" या बफर को दोगुने से अधिक बढ़ाकर £22bn किया जा सके - जिसमें से कुछ के ईरान युद्ध के प्रभाव के कारण कम होने की उम्मीद है।
Chancellor aims to curb rising household bills as she consults on reforms to weaken link between gas and electricity pricesRachel Reeves is poised to raise the government’s windfall tax on low-carbon electricity generators to help to limit UK household energy bills, the Guardian understands.The chancellor is ready to hike the levy introduced in 2022 to target the excess profits made by the owners of older renewable energy and nuclear plants as electricity market prices soared after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading...
Zegler won the Olivier award for best actress in a musical for her role in Jamie Lloyd’s ‘genius’ productionOlivier awards 2026: full list of winners‘I want to thank my amazing husband, who doesn’t exist!’ – Olivier awards’ best quotesIt was the most talked about theatre scene of the year: Rachel Zegler performing Don’t Cry for Me Argentina from the balcony at the London Palladium to crowds gathered on the street below. At the Olivier awards on Sunday night, Zegler delivered the song from Evita again – this time on the stage of the Royal Albert Hall – and took home the award for best actress in a musical.Host Nick Mohammed said that Zegler had become “a new landmark for London sightseers” during Evita’s run last summer. “People who hadn’t bought a ticket could effectively watch it live for free whereas everyone inside had to pay to watch it on a giant screen,” he explained, jokingly calling it “a business model that I’m sure could really catch on”. Continue reading...
• Rachel Recchia from The Bachelorette broke down emotionally while discussing the intense hate comments she has received online.
• The reality star opened up about the toll of public scrutiny in a candid Us Weekly feature.
• Her story highlights ongoing mental health struggles faced by reality TV personalities in the U.S.
Chancellor says the government is looking at ways they can support people based on household income Good morning. Keir Starmer is giving a press conference this morning where, according to No 10, he will discuss the Iran war, and how the government is supporting people at home. Now we are in April, the new financial year is starting, and the government is highlighting measures it has introduced that will help people with the cost of living. The Conservatives have an alternative list, and they are claiming this morning that “Keir Starmer and his chancellor have piled on extra costs leaving families almost £1,000 worse off this year”.The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has been doing her own media too. She is on the Jeremy Vine show later, but she has already given an interview to BBC Breakfast in which she gave a marginally clearer idea of what she is planning to do to help people with energy bills than she did when she made a statement to MPs last week.From July to September, gas usage, especially by families and pensioners, is the lowest of any months of the year because it is the summer months …It will be really from the autumn onwards that people’s gas usage starts increasing. So at the moment we are working on a range of contingencies. And we are looking at more targeted measures. We are looking at ways we can support people based on their household income.I want to learn the lessons of the past because when Russia invaded Ukraine, the richest, the best-off third of households got more than a third of the support. That makes no sense at all. Continue reading...
Charities say taxes should rise for banks, defence and energy companies which stand to make windfall profitsMiddle East crisis liveRachel Reeves is being urged to raise taxes on businesses generating “windfall” profits linked to the US-Israel war on Iran to fund emergency cost of living support for UK households.With the government under pressure to respond, a group of leading charities, campaigners and trade unions said the chancellor could raise billions by taxing “excess profits” linked to the conflict. Continue reading...
Chancellor says package offered by Liz Truss’s government was unaffordable and any future help will be targetedRachel Reeves has ruled out universal support to deal with any future rise in energy bills, saying any government help would be targeted, and criticised the support offered by Liz Truss’s government as unaffordable and irresponsible.The chancellor also said she would review the planned fuel duty rise in September, but she did not commit to delaying or postponing it. Continue reading...
