T HE FINANCING of local authorities in Britain can stir passions and topple leaders. In 1989 Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government introduced the “poll tax”, an average annual charge ...

Council tax bills for the coming financial year will shortly be dropping on people’s doormats, ... Britain now has a wealth tax in all but name. Telegraph View. 20 March 2025 at 2:55 pm · 2-min read.

This book tells the gripping inside story of the biggest mass movement in British history, which at its peak involved over 17 million people. Using a combination of photos, text, and graphics, and ...

This weakness is expressed most clearly where he describes the comments made by Tommy Sheridan (Chair of the All-Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation) immediately after Trafalgar Square as "defensive" (pg ...

The report finds that, compared to a generation ago, households across the poorer half of Britain get a greater share of their income from earnings – rising from 63% in 1994/95 to 68% in 2022/23.

One MP said they had received angry letters referring to the levy as the "poll tax 2.0" – a phrase that was also used spontaneously by voters in a focus group in a northern city last week.