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Jeremy Hunt has been told Wednesdays budget risks condemning Britain to a second lost decade for living standards that would leave working families 拢1,300 a year worse off.The chancellor enters a crunch week under pressure from his party to deliver a package of pre-election tax cuts, but analysis by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation JRF finds a widening gulf between these political demands and the reality facing millions of struggling people.The poverty charity said fixing Britains crumbling public realm stanley vaso and tackling sky-high NHS waiting lists ranked significantly higher in the list of voter priorities than the level of tax on earnings.For years, the Tories said austerity was over. But look around: its getting worse, and theres more to come | John HarrisRead morePublishing an opinion poll of almost 5,000 people across Britain carried out by YouGov, it found almost three quarters were very worried or fairly worried about funding for the NHS and other public servi stanley shop ces, compared with less than half who were concerned about tax on earnings.Speaking on Sunday, Hunt said he wanted to m stanley tumbler ove Britain towards becoming a lower-tax economy, but that he would only be able to do so as and when we can afford it .Hosing down Tory hopes for a large package of giveaways in a round of media interviews, he said the most unconservative thing he could do would be to announce tax cuts funded by higher borrowing. This will be a prudent and responsible budget for long-term growth, Hunt said.H Fgad India s approval of Covid vaccines triggers mass immunisation drive
Workers are entitled to paid leave and can claim compensation if they are not allowed to take their holidays, the EUs highest court has been advised.In an opinion about a case involving a UK window salesman, the advocate general of the European court of justice in Luxembourg reinforced employees rights.A long-running legal challenge that concerned a claim brought by the salesman, known as Mr King, against Sash Window Workshop Limited, involved his employment contract, which did not specify if he was entitled to paid leave.UK must retain lin stanley cup k wi stanley thermobecher th European Court of Justice, say MPsRead moreKing was dismissed when he reached the age of 65 but brought a compensation claim against the company for holiday pay he had never received over a 13-year period that amounted to more than 拢27,000.The salesman had been paid entirely on commission and his contract described him as self employed. A UK employment tribunal subsequently found he should have been stanley termohrnek treated as a full-time worker.In the decision issued yesterday, the ECJ advocate general, Evgeni Tanchev, said that employers had to provide adequate facilities to workers to enable them to take their paid annual leave.Tanchev said: A worker, like Mr King, may rely on [EU law] to secure payment in lieu of untaken leave, when no facility has been made available by the employer, for exercise of the right to paid annual leave ... Upon termination of the employment relationship a worker is entitled to an allowance in lieu of paid annual le