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• Will the Labrador energy switcher make you switch suppliers?

  11-03-2018 17:13
  Startup claims device will automatically switch smart-meter users three times a year and save them £300A device that plugs into a home broadband router and automatically switches supplier when cheaper deals become available is set to revolutionise the home energy market. The launch of Labrador comes as more and more people are changing their energy companies. Continue reading...
  
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• What will Philip Hammond say in his spring statement?

  11-03-2018 14:04 via theguardian.com
  Calls for investment are growing but despite being in a good position the UK chancellor won’t want to create wavesFor years Britain has had not one annual budget but two. The real deal – the one where the chancellor stands outside 11 Downing Street with his little red box – has been in the spring, but there has also been another round of tax and spending measures included in an autumn statement.Philip Hammond has changed all that. As of now, there will be only one big set-piece
  
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• Philip Hammond on UK debt: 'There is light at the end of the tunnel' – video

  11-03-2018 13:46 via theguardian.com
  The chancellor, Philip Hammond, has said that the UK's debt is expected to fall. Speaking on BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show, he said that although things were improving 'we are still in the tunnel'Philip Hammond: there is light at the end of the tunnel for UK debt Continue reading...
  
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• A glimpse into Brexit Britain’s future: going it alone in a trade war | William Keegan

  11-03-2018 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Trump imposes tariffs. The EU uses its scale to threaten a major response. Where will an isolated UK be when the giants clash?For me, one of the great tests of a play, film or opera is that it should be so absorbing that one’s mind switches off from day-to-day, mundane concerns.The Churchill film Darkest Hour is an exception that proves the rule. How could one possibly not reflect on the present failure of British leadership as we are reminded of the way Churchill rose to the occasion in t
  
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• Letters: in praise of prudence and thrifty baby boomers

  11-03-2018 01:01 via theguardian.com
  Values of waste not, want not and frugality make the baby-boomer savings what they are todaySpit-soaked feathers lay all over the breakfast table as I was accused by Phillip Inman that I, and many others of my age group, were “in pursuit of the holy grail of wealth” (“Boomers’ mania for saving leads to economic madness”, Business).In addition, we are held responsible for “wanting to keep saving even as they move into their 80s and 90s”. How dare we?
  
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