Mrs B's method of attacking Labour takes the form of schoolkid cheekiness, I say. Not sustainable long-term as it will just get boring and it just makes her look rather childish

Where is the growth going to come from with this budget? Seems to me like every industry is being hit hard which surely means price rises for us the public. Doesn’t it?

Tesco don't have to FIND anything. Profit is what is left AFTER staffing and all other costs. If costs go up, it just means shareholders get less? But Tesco doesn't need to find money anywhere?! They are only increasing so they can maintain their HUGE profits. The companies this will hit are the ones where the profits are all the Owners get (where they wholly own or are one of a few shareholders). They will need to increase prices so they can pay themselves. Or any company which is "not for profit" like charities - let them use the money to take the burden off state services? But big companies who are increasing to keep huge profits for LARGE numbers of shareholders?!? Really??

Legalise and tax cannabis instead. It makes loads of money in the USA and would reduce demand on police and prisons.

The best outcome for all concerned is if Starmer and his cabinet resigns before there is once again 'no money left!'.

Think of the impact on an already desperate NHS

Shareholders are largely private sector pension funds. They make less profit it is passed on to individuals through lower returns or increased prices. On the charity front, speaking to contacts in the sector, it is also a massive hit, they should be exempt.

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It's a massive con

IT IS ALL Z NASSIVE CON ... THE DEVELOPING WORLD LIKE CHINA ARE NOT INTERESTED.

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Tesco just posted massive profits on the back of inflation and a cost of living crisis. In general businesses have been reducing wages and need little encouragement to reduce them further. They will just hide them under the protest of tax rises.

If Tesco didn't make a profit then they would not pay corporation tax; furthermore, the shareholders would not pay tax on any dividends or vat when they spend the money. The biggest shareholders in Tesco's are pension funds, that have invested long term to pay out to pensioners and funds that finance things like the teacher's retirement plan. If companies did not make profits, there would be no investment, job security would fall. Anyone who thinks its great news to poke Tesco in the eye, is an idiot.

Your leaders have done more damage with their mouths than any tarrif they put on

Tesco adjusted operating profit was £2.9 billion for 24/25. Im no mathematician, but £700 per person for NI increase is no factor. If they start laying people off, customers need to decide where they should shop.

I'm favoured financially with Bitcoin ETFs approval, Thank you buddy.$28,600 weekly profit regardless of how bad it gets on the economy.

I don't know where this £1 billion NI for increase for Tesco comes from. Tesco has 312000 employees on an average salary of £30000, giving it a wage bill of £9.36 billion. So if you do the calculations the increase due to the percentage increase in NI is £140 million, and the increase due to reducing the threshold from £9100 to £5000, ie £615 per employee is £192million. So the total increase at Tesco is £332 million. These are "back of a fag packet" calculation, perhaps Tesco would like to tell me where I have gone wrong !!

This was the man i think left the note for George Osborne in 2010 after 14 years of Labours saying ' Sorry George there's no money left ' the man Trump needs to.listern to

oh no, Companies having to pay taxes... zero sympathy for them. Passing it on, instead of cutting into their record profits, is the issue. Blame squarely resides with the greedy profiteering price gougers.

Withdrawal from NATO would save us a fortune though

I thought ambassadorships were a civil service and a non political appointment

Delusion, thy name is Times Radio

How we all thought the Tories were the worst Government of our lifetime. Labour were so quick to say 'Hold my Beer' (didnt vote for either)

Tescos profits quadrupled during the cost of living crisis

Food prices are already increasing almost daily. For example, a 105g bag of Smarties was £1.35 earlier this year, they are now £1.65 per bag, an increase of 22%! This is just one example & that is before you factor in any increases that may come because of Reeves stupidity............😊

Let's be real here. This is to fund the public sector. As an individual, you manage your own finances by budgeting. If you can not afford something, you either cut back or borrow. You dont go robbing someone else - only the government does that and gets away with it. So, the simplest and most obvious solution is to cut public spending, and the way to do that is either by reducing headcount or reducing salaries and pensions. If all public sector employees had a pay and pension hair cut, the countries finances could easily be balanced. Simply shovelling more money into the public sector to buy votes and drain the private sector to fund it is about to go bang. The fuse has been lit!

Maybe the first thing would for David Lammy and the rest to apologise to Trump for their comments 😂😂😂

Tesco are forecast to make £2.9 billion profit

Europe has already shown that it is more or less useless when it comes to China. Furthermore, its not like they'll be in the Pacific fighting for Taiwan, when they can't even significantly help stop Russia. Tariff it all.

As someone who works in the health service, we've been begging for reform and changes for about a decade. Real-world practical stuff, not just shimmying about the oversight and management architecture every 3 years or so. The challenge is that making these reforms cost money. It's extremely difficult to just wholesale stop something and start something new overnight, especially when there's a boatload of people waiting who were promised the old thing. So we end up with a period of double-running the old and the new, usually for a year or two before things shake themselves out. This has been functionally impossible to do at the same time as meeting the fairly crippling yearly spending cuts that the Tories have dictated. They wanted to have their cake and eat it. The other challenge is that, I'd say, 80-90% of Health's problems are systematic, rather than endemic. By this, I mean they're not in the Health service's gift to fix 100%. To fix them needs a concerted improvement of health, social care, education, housing etc., which have been under even worse financial measures over the last 17 years. The high spend of the Health system is one of the symptoms of everything else being at failure point, among other things. It was encouraging to hear Wes Streeting speaking in these systemic terms when he was newly in term. It seems to me that the government has finally caught up with how we've know things need to be fixed for a decade, and seems to be putting in place the practical measures to get it done.

Insanity. Someone like Farage shunned, in place of Mandleson? What on EARTH is going on on this channel? No wonder Trump won.

Rachel Reeves studied at the University of Oxford before obtaining a Master of Science degree from the London School of Economics - whereas Farage failed academically and couldn’t even get into a second rate polytechnic despite best private education money could buy. He then went bankrupt in business.

I think we need two things. 1) A cross party long term strategy but much more importantly 2) A long term ( cross party ) strategy to reform the food industry’s want to produce hyper processed food which is undoubtedly fuelling the year on year rise of all the chronic illnesses described.

Business have to pass on the increase in NI costs to the consumer. The Labour government are trying to kid the population that companies will absorb the cost. Tesco does make millions in profit, but their investment is huge and investors demand a return or they'll invest elsewhere. All the latest tax rises will be paid by working people in some form or other, and anyone who thinks otherwise is dumb.

All costs will go on to customers every thing will go up ,every business will have wages znd national insurance go up that will pass it on or cut jobs ,nobody can magic up money

Half of these businesses wanted Labour in.

I like the way he says Isss-uses and race-issm and Mendaciousss-ness and so on. Is he a Slitheryn? Does he have a great big snake in his cellar?

Reeves….I was an economist at the Bank of England, don’t yer know!?

Better start shopping at Lidl and Aldi!

Your title is misleading. It is a sign of jealousy. 'Why this one and not me syndrome'

Inheritance tax is fundamentally flawes, since it involves using capital as income. Of course there ifs special pleading for the sacred NHS.

Smiling with that briefcase smugly as she gets into a nice land rover

We need smaller government not higher taxes to pay for government waste

The government knows full well that costs will be passed on to the customer. If they think differently then they are deluded. All WEF policies, all part of the plan. That have attacked every business.

Just make less profit and pay less share holder dividends?

Tesco £2.9 billion profit in 2024

You can say what you like you may not get the chance as much as I appreciate you are very educated engineering background and the first black woman to stand at that dispatch box. The fact of the matter is that by the time we get there, there may be no left if things go the way that most people hope reform will have already replaced you as the leading opposition if not the government.

Wait till April when everything kicks in. Prices will rise and jobs will be lost. If you thought the first 100 days was bad just wait till you see what this next 100 will be like. They have only just begun .

She will fade away soon just like Liz Truss....Political office is way above her head.....She is a laughing stock......Who is trying to impress....But she is empty.....