The Legend of John Healey's Hammer

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57% : And Griffith's Reform UK opposite number Robert Jenrick was so generous on Saturday as to offer a rise in the income tax personal allowance, given Burnham said it was being raised on doorsteps in Makerfield.
56% : KEEP YOUR DIARIES MARKED: We are still awaiting a statement, quite possibly this week, from Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband on Israel's E1 settlement project.
56% : BUT: European Relations Minister Hamish Falconer will meet EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič today in Brussels in a bid to secure concessions on the bloc's "Made in Europe" procurement policy, my trade reporter colleague Caroline Hug writes.
53% : oral questions on topics including neighborhood health services, cuts to performing arts teaching grants and taxation on rural businesses ... committee stage of the Local Plans Bill ... and report stage of the Financial Services and Markets Bill.
50% : As the Sunday Times' Ben Riley-Smith first reported, Brown has been sounded out for advice on this speech by Healey's team ... and Playbook hears the same and that he's been involved. Also offering advice, but in less of a helpful sense: New Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith -- who has described what he's heard so far of this speech as a "word-salad" -- has a Mail op-ed urging Healey to rule out any tax rises now.
50% : John Healey is considering an increase in taxes on slot machines in the budget, the Times' Stefan Boscia reports.
49% : Former PM Gordon Brown told the Rest is Money podcast last week (h/t the Telegraph) the PM should look at reforms to stamp duty and council tax -- as he warned property is already "taxed quite heavily."
45% : Officials billed it as a "serious bit of thinking," and whether Healeyism is any different to Burnhamism, how devolving fiscal power will actually work and what he'll do about tax are all valid questions for Healey when he stands up in a couple of hours' time.
45% : ROYAL RECKONING: Jamaica's government will today hand a petition to King Charles seeking a legal route to slavery reparations, its culture minister said.
42% : Healey can expect questions on what he'll do about the diminishing headroom he has to contend with -- as well as where any pain will fall in the form of tax rises or spending cuts.

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