Welcome to the award-winning Money Distilled newsletter. I’m John Stepek and this is the Friday Roundup, where we review the week’s news, discuss the latest Merryn Talks Money podcast and link to various intriguing topics that arose this week.
It’s been a hectic week, what with Prime Minister Keir Starmer (via a careless choice of words) saying that shareholders aren’t working people, and sweeping speculation about what the Budget might hold — the most pertinent of which for the readership of this newsletter is probably the threat to impose employer National Insurance on pension contributions.