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Civil service will be ordered to slash £2.2bn from ‘back room’ budgets with jobs to go as Rachel Reeves desperately tries to avoid more tax rises in looming Spring Statement
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Civil service will be ordered to slash £2.2bn from ‘back room’ budgets with jobs to go as Rachel Reeves desperately tries to avoid more tax rises in looming Spring Statement

By JAMES TAPSFIELD, POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE Published: 03:31 EDT, 23 March 2025 | Updated: 03:31 EDT, 23 March 2025 The civil service will be told to slash more than £2billion a year from budgets by the end of the decade as Rachel Reeves desperately tries to balance the books. Administrative costs must fall 15

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Tom Ford buys London townhouse for £80m in Britain’s biggest property deal this year as fashion designer continues worldwide mansion-buying spree after cashing in on Estee Lauder for £2.2bn
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Tom Ford buys London townhouse for £80m in Britain’s biggest property deal this year as fashion designer continues worldwide mansion-buying spree after cashing in on Estee Lauder for £2.2bn

Tom Ford continues to add to his growing collection of worldwide mansions, having recently purchased a London townhouse for £80million. The American billionaire’s procurement of the mansion in Chelsea is believed to be Britain’s biggest property deal this year. It brings Mr Ford’s total spend on his global property collection to about £270million, as he

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