Getty Images Chancellor Rachel Reeves will deliver Labour’s first Budget on Wednesday 30 October. She has already warned that it will involve “difficult decisions” on tax, spending and benefits. Prime...
GB News/PA Media Conservative leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch has criticised a Tory MP who said he wouldn’t choose her as leader as she is “preoccupied with her own children”. Sir Christopher Chope t...
Tourism hotspot cuts council tax on second homes Getty Images A 200% council tax premium introduced in April trebled bills One of Wales’ tourism hotspots has voted to make it cheaper to own a second h...
BBC Ed Miliband promoted a “skills passport” to help North Sea workers to transition to renewables jobs The UK’s energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has denied avoiding the UK’s oil and gas sector for more...
Northamptonshire Police Lucy Connolly was being held on remand at HMP Peterborough prior to the hearing The wife of a Conservative councillor has been jailed for 31 months after calling for hotels hou...
Getty Images Robert Jenrick has been on a political journey and looks to be a man in a hurry. An MP at the age of 32, he arrived at Westminster as the first Conservative in 25 years to hold a seat for...
Tories continue questions over Taylor Swift police escort Getty Images Senior Conservatives have continued to question the government over the police escorts Taylor Swift received to her concerts at W...
PA Media Sir Tom Hunter says the former first minister and his family deserve “dignity and privacy” Businessman and philanthropist Sir Tom Hunter has paid for the plane flying Alex Salmond’s body home...
Ministers are giving magistrates new sentencing powers in an effort to ease record delays to criminal trials, despite the fact that they are likely to temporarily push the prison population back up. M...
Former Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay has been formally introduced in the House of Lords as Baron Mackinlay of Richborough. By taking up his peerage he becomes the first quadruple amputee to sit in t...
PA Media Conservative leadership hopeful Robert Jenrick has said he would reduce benefits spending in order to enable cuts to income tax. In a speech, the former minister said unemployed claimants sho...
Reuters Jimmy Lai arriving in court in 2023 Securing the release of pro-democracy activist and British citizen Jimmy Lai from a Hong Kong prison is a “priority” for the government, Sir Keir Starmer ha...
