Labour Budget Archives - Philip J Milton & Company Plc https://www.miltonpj.net/tag/labour-budget/ North Devon's Leading Wealth Managers Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:09:18 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.miltonpj.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/PJMCO-Site-Image-4-100x100.png Labour Budget Archives - Philip J Milton & Company Plc https://www.miltonpj.net/tag/labour-budget/ 32 32 Happy New Year for farmers https://www.miltonpj.net/2026/01/06/happy-new-year-for-farmers/ Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=12147 A Happy New Year. I hope that your celebrations of all Christmas really means was good and joyful and that you have seen-in the New Year with relish! Already the days are opening-out and spring, albeit very cold, is daring to peek through the wintry gloom. What a nice Christmas present for ‘farmers’ with the […]

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]]> Is the economy in good hands? https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/12/18/is-the-economy-in-good-hands/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=12122 So we enter a new era with Labour ‘less trusted on the economy than Liz Truss’ Conservatives according to the last YouGov Poll. Indeed, the descent of the Labour dream seems to have been as sharp as the fall in YouGov’s share price now somewhat sorry for itself too and like Labour’s fortunes.  I predict […]

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]]> Toothless Budget lacked real drive https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/12/04/toothless-budget-lacks-real-drive/ Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=12108 For readers here, the biggest pieces of good news were what she didn’t do, such as attacking pension tax-free lump sums or tax relief on contributions, no lifetime Inheritance Tax on gifts or changes to present allowances and no changes to CGT. We did our best to discourage people from taking their cash from pensions […]

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]]> A message from the Chancellor… https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/11/07/chancellor-pre-budget-speech/ Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:30:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=12068 Good afternoon. I have just returned from a relaxing and much-needed break which took us to bustling Hungary, Slovakia and Austria. Yes, I took the computer though the inbox defied my occasional review so apologies if you are still awaiting my reply! I returned to an unexpected speech from our Chancellor. I should like to […]

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]]> Uncertainty and wobbles on global stage https://www.miltonpj.net/2025/10/23/growth-slows-amid-global-uncertainty/ Thu, 23 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=12055 Some really positive news from the Middle East at last. Whatever you think of him, well done President Trump for being the catalyst – time to move onto Russia in earnest now.  Let us hope that this awful conflict will also be over very soon now. Sadly, economically at home, unemployment rises, wage growth slows, […]

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]]> A bad Budget for business – but it could have been worse https://www.miltonpj.net/2024/11/06/business-negative-budget-reaction/ Wed, 06 Nov 2024 16:43:14 +0000 https://www.miltonpj.net/?p=11473 The Budget has finally been unveiled and while many in the financial and wealth management sector are of the opinion it wasn’t quite as bad as we feared, the Chancellor’s package of measures revealed last Wednesday contained some nasty elements too. In our opinion it was a business-negative Budget which won’t help the objective of […]

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