Emma Taggart
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Derry girl in London | Economics reporter @telegraph | Previously @thetimes and @irishexaminer | @JSchofieldTrust Fellow 2024 | She/her | All views my own
London via County Derry
Joined June 2016
Great to make my debut appearance on the @DailyTPodcast🎙️ At today’s PMQs, Keir Starmer refused to rule out a new wealth tax, despite growing pressure in the Commons Listen to find out what it could mean for savers, homeowners, and the economy💷 🔗 https://t.co/A91ghiUV7P
🚨 NEW DAILY T EPISODE: Why Starmer won’t rule out a wealth tax @timothy_stanley and @gordonrayner are joined by our economics reporter @emmaftaggart to discuss what a potential 2% wealth tax on assets over £10 million could mean for savers, homeowners and the economy 🎧 Listen
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Good to chat the #Budget2026 implications through with @emmaftaggart from @Telegraph. Fiscal consolidation has now become the main objective of economic policy. @LiamHalligan @econromesh
https://t.co/8bnqydcTew
telegraph.co.uk
Chancellor’s Budget income tax raid U-turn fuels caution and uncertainty among investors
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💷Slower-than-expected economic growth paints a grim picture for Rachel Reeves as she prepares for the Budget later this month 💰With new GDP figures out this morning, I've taken a look at the UK's economic outlook Read more below⬇️ https://t.co/ddsaAcXHGK
telegraph.co.uk
With more Budget tax rises on the way, Britain’s economy is unlikely to improve any time soon
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My colleague @emmaftaggart has the full details today: https://t.co/0C3ekyfv0N
telegraph.co.uk
Flagship government schemes also became magnet for fraud, NAO report warns
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Great to have two pieces on the front page of The Telegraph business section today 📰 I covered the Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates on Wednesday and live blogged the press conference💵 Follow the link to read the coverage online https://t.co/DYUjIhIPP6
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📉 Falling vacancies and declining demand for staff are causing a reversal of the "great resignation" 💼 Many employees are holding on tightly to their current roles as the UK's labour market continues to cool Read more below⬇️ https://t.co/3ybf3oaVST
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Great to have my first front page with The Sunday Telegraph today. Unfortunately, it's not good news for the economy. Concerns about borrowing are growing, with some economists warning a 1970s-style fiscal crisis is on the cards 📉 🔗 https://t.co/QWOQIDDNvr
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I travelled to Ringaskiddy, Cork last week to hear about the uncertainty caused by tariffs As the final details of the EU-US trade deal are hammered out, locals are nervously waiting to see how it impacts the pharma sector Read more below ⬇️ https://t.co/x0VnQx0yoD
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Great article citing @ImpetusUK Youth Jobs Gap research findings on NEET rates in Islington - plus some analysis on how we can better support young people into work.
Lauded as one of London’s most middle-class hubs, Islington seems an unlikely place for high unemployment Yet only four other local authorities have a higher likelihood of young people becoming Neet, according to a report from Impetus Read more below ⬇️ https://t.co/d2ZatqdF4n
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Brussels has backed down at the eleventh hour from plans to impose €21bn retaliatory tariffs on the US after Trump threatened to punish the bloc with 30pc levies The reprieve will give EU negotiators more time as they battle to secure a trade deal 🇪🇺🇺🇸 https://t.co/alWG0wVeET
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Lauded as one of London’s most middle-class hubs, Islington seems an unlikely place for high unemployment Yet only four other local authorities have a higher likelihood of young people becoming Neet, according to a report from Impetus Read more below ⬇️ https://t.co/d2ZatqdF4n
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Check out my piece from yesterday on this too! 🗞️ https://t.co/eMQTAF3kiP
telegraph.co.uk
IFS says global examples of a levy on assets of rich were ‘not encouraging’
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I'm looking to speak to recent university graduates who are struggling to find a job for The Telegraph 🗞️ 👩🎓 We've been hearing more and more about how university leavers in the UK are entering a tough jobs market Please DM or email me at emma.taggart@telegraph.co.uk 📧
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For the last year, I’ve been working on an investigation that’s left me staggered. It’s a damning indictment of the UK’s care sector, & the migration system which has allowed millions of ££s to be plundered from communities in developing countries. Free:
bloomberg.com
Recent changes to immigration policy won’t do anything for people who’ve been exploited while seeking jobs in the UK. But they may worsen the care-worker shortage.
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In 1958, engineers constructed the UK’s first stretch of motorway 🛣️ Then-prime minister Harold Macmillan said it was not only a "fine thing in itself", but "a token of what was to follow" Almost 70 years on, Britain’s motorway network has lost its way https://t.co/XO60D07pJx
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Very excited to have started at the @Telegraph this week! Here's my first feature for the paper as a fully fledged economics reporter📈🇨🇦 https://t.co/QWGkmtEVVz
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Very grateful to have spent a wonderful two and a half years at The Times. Feeling so lucky to have worked alongside such amazing colleagues I'm looking forward to getting started at The Telegraph on Monday as an economics reporter 🗞
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Confused about trade wars, imports and market turmoil?📉 Here's an explainer I wrote today which gives a handy guide to what Trump's new tariffs mean for you and the global economy ⬇️ https://t.co/BwOoBL6Wpx
thetimes.com
Stock markets are struggling, economists are warning of recessions and companies are considering where they base their operations. What will the new measures mean for your pockets?
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@MorgenrothEdgar @IDAIRELAND Always super interesting to write about home. Even more so when the articles includes tariffs, trade deficits and corporation tax! Read more below about it all below⬇️ https://t.co/5kqBhDsGF1
thetimes.com
Despite warm words from President Trump for St Patrick’s Day, Ireland will be the hardest hit in the EU if American companies return home
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@MorgenrothEdgar "I think we in Ireland in particular are very much focusing on the strong and proven relationship there has been between Ireland and the US over many decades," said Michael Lohan, CEO of @IDAIRELAND
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