Hugo Greenhalgh

As the World Cup kicks off in Qatar this week, controversy is raging over the decision to hold the mega sporting event in a country where gay sex is a crime.

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Low-income Britons will see few benefits from the historic tax cuts announced by the country's new finance minister on Friday, union leaders and anti-poverty campaigners said, warning that the measures would widen the rich-poor divide.

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng scrapped the top rate of income tax as well as a planned rise in corporate taxes in his "mini-budget", and said bankers' bonuses would no longer be capped - measures Prime Minister Liz Truss hopes will help double Britain's rate of economic growth.