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The Chancellor is presiding over a high-tax, high-spend, low-growth, quasi-socialist economy, a Conservative backbencher has claimed.Philip Davies, MP for Shipley, urged Jeremy Hunt to lower the burden of taxation and introduce some tax cuts days after the Chancellor's Spring Budget.Speaking during Commons Treasury questions, Mr Davies said: Although I appreciate it's largely as a result of the idiotic decision to lock down the country and the economy for the best part of two years, the Chancellor nevertheless finds himself presiding over a high-tax, high-spend, low-growth, quasi-socialist economy.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email EuroMillions lottery players are being urged to check their tickets after four 1m winners failed to come forward to collect their prizes.In all, 31 people in the UK scooped a million-pound jackpot in a special draw last Friday, but so far four of them have not claimed.

The iconic lights that have run alongside the Bay Bridge for 10 years will go dark and come down Sunday, but the fate of the public art display that has illuminated the San Francisco Bay is still uncertain."It's going to leave a hole in the sky and punch a hole in the heart of San Francisco," said Ben Davis, founder of Illuminate, a nonprofit that helped launch the art project with New York-based artist Leo Villareal in 2013.

As a member of Patriotic Millionaires UK, I'm a self-confessed wealthy individual who spends a lot of time repeatedly asking the government to increase taxes on my wealth and the wealth of people like me.This week, that message has brought me to snowy Davos, where the World Economic Forum (WEF) meets annually to discuss major economic concerns.

Ministers have been told to come clean on the economic argument behind not scrapping non-doms in the UK after the chancellor suggested he did not know how much money axing the controversial tax status would raise.Jeremy Hunt insists the economy would not be helped by scrapping the status, saying on Friday that he would rather the super rich stayed... and spent their money here.