Category: Politics

Jeremy Hunt will announce a series of measures to boost Britain’s economy as he delivers his second autumn statement today. In what will be one… Read More

What do you picture when you think of farmed animals? I think of chickens, pigs and cows, or maybe sheep. But farming has radically changed… Read More

The electoral battleground in the UK has been redrawn. Updates to the parliamentary constituencies in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will play a significant… Read More

There is a new phenomenon taking the SW1 scene by storm: the “alternative budget” — a fiscal plan produced by some dispossessed faction and designed,… Read More

Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s former chief scientific adviser, accused the Treasury during the pandemic of “pure dogma”, private notes written at the time reveal. … Read More

Tomorrow’s autumn statement is set to include measures to get hundreds of thousands of people with mobility and mental health problems into work as part… Read More

A key question that flowed from the Supreme Court ruling on the government’s flagship deportation plan last week was this: will any asylum seekers make… Read More

David Lammy has accused world leaders of being “content with delusions of wishful thinking” when it comes to the Middles East and the failure to… Read More

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will not “sacrifice the principles of sound money” amid calls for tax cuts, when he delivers the Autumn Statement on Wednesday. Treasury… Read More