Maximise your £20,000 Isa allowance by ditching the big banks

Don’t forget your new £20,000 Isa allowance: Looking beyond the big banks could boost returns eightfold The new tax year means a new allowance which can be spread across 4 accounts Savers can currently save £250,000 without paying tax on interest due to rates However rates could rise and Isas remain important for preserving your … Read more

Boris Johnson scraps standalone foreign aid department to ‘maximise British influence’ abroad

Boris Johnson announced the government department responsible for foreign aid is to be scrapped in a dramatic overhaul of the way Britain operates overseas. The department for International Development (Dfid) will be merged into the Foreign Office to create the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in a bid to ‘maximise British influence’ overseas, he told … Read more