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Political party conferences can be weird events — where positive thinking and hopeful rhetoric can crowd out reality

Prime Minister Andy Burnham is said to be maintaining an ‘open mind’ regarding expansion at the nation’s busiest airport

Conservatives vow to scrap Natural England and Environment Agency in red tape ‘bonfire’

Andy Burnham confirms changes to state pension triple lock to fund new National Care Service

Prime Minister Andy Burnham is said to be maintaining an ‘open mind’ regarding expansion at the nation’s busiest airport

Under the proposal, any parent employed for at least 16 hours a week would qualify for 30 hours of free care weekly — ending the £100,000 ‘cliff edge’

The Bank of England is announcing its latest interest rate decision later — Graeme Wearden will have all the details on his business live blog — and Andrew Griffith is giving his first major speech since being appointed as shadow chancellor just over two weeks ago

While headline inflation ticked higher, core CPI which strips out volatile components like energy and food—held steady at 2.6% for the fourth consecutive month, indicating that underlying domestic price pressures remain largely contained

Trump is scheduled to sign an executive order behind closed doors at 1:30 p.m. ET (1730 GMT)

The shadow health secretary Stuart Andrew has quit Kemi Badenoch's Conservative frontbench team in a week that has seen two other high-profile politicians — Priti Patel and Sir James Cleverley — also resign from the shadow cabinet

President Trump visited Texas on Thursday amid criticism of his plans to lower beef prices by importing more beef from overseas

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The institute attributed the decline to falling real asset prices, a low household savings rate and the emigration of high-net-worth individuals

Andy Burnham to hand pubs 20pc tax break

Scrambling around to save his leadership, the Prime Minister has decided to give his Euro-fanatic backbenchers something symbolic

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer voiced rare public frustration over global political pressures and sharply distanced himself from U.S. President Donald Trump’s rhetoric in comments published Thursday

Bluntly, the Prime Minister has more pressing defence matters to attend to: he should have stayed in Whitehall and convened a series of emergency meetings to revive and rearm Britain's military

OpenAI blames Britain’s high energy prices as it halts flagship project

A new document published by the Government has now detailed the powers that the FWA — dubbed Labour's 'jobs police' — has to enforce workplace laws

A new document published by the Government has now detailed the powers that the FWA — dubbed Labour's 'jobs police' — has to enforce workplace laws

The S&P Global South Africa Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose to 50.8 ​in March from 50.0 in February

The price of diesel is now £175.73 a litre — 33p or 23.4% more expensive than on February 28

Dozens of EU laws will be imported to the UK under new legislation to be introduced by Sir Keir Starmer

The new £2.5bn strategy aims to increase domestic production by 30%

The Scottish First Minister spoke out ahead of a meeting between Chancellor Rachel Reeves and North Sea leaders

The number of so-called 'NEETs' has risen amid mounting alarm at a generational benefits timebomb

It means that the cost will still be £73 higher than when Labour came to power, a far cry from Energy Secretary Ed Miliband’s pledge to lower them by £300

The latest official figures from Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed there was a public sector net borrowing surplus of £30.4bn in January

Ofgem is due to announce its next price cap level by February 25 for the three months from April 1 to June 30

UK wage growth cools further as unemployment rises

Maryam Eslamdoust, general secretary of the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA), has publicly backed Angela Rayner to replace him, marking the first time a leader of one of Labour’s affiliated unions has openly supported an alternative to Sir Keir

The cross-party committee highlighted further allegations from Vodafone franchisees of an imbalance of power in their agreements, which prompted them to launch a high court claim in December 2024

Banks and department stores have been replaced by vape shops, barbers and bookmakers

It comes as the Government faces growing criticism over its treatment of rural communities after launching an inheritance tax raid on farmers and announcing plans to ban trail hunting

Chaos erupted in the Commons today as Lee Anderson grilled David Lammy over the pubs row engulfing Labour at Deputy Prime Minister's Questions

Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the Commons, had one foot in a surgical boot after a recent tumble

Rachel Reeves has been dealt another blow after firms warned of a drop in private sector activity amid 'fragile' confidence

The Chancellor unleashed a fresh host of tax hikes on the sector in her November Budget, including changes to business rates — a form of commercial property tax — that could see costs double over the next three years

Sir Keir Starmer's efforts to schmooze with 'content creators' in Downing Street this week appeared to backfire when he was confronted over 'diabolical' tax hikes

Government plans to speed up and simplify anti-trust probes

The £8.2 billion figure, calculated using Office for Budget Responsibility data, includes reversals on personal independence payments and universal credit, as well as the winter fuel allowance and the two-child benefit cap

The reforms, part of Labour's flagship workers' rights package, include unpaid parental leave from the first day in a new job, which the Government says will give an additional 1.5 million parents increased flexibility to share childcare responsibilities

They have ruled out allowing the continued use of low-carbon or synthetic fuels, meaning that from 2040 all new heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) will have to be electric

Grok, the built-in chatbot on X, is facing intense scrutiny after acknowledging it generated and shared an AI image depicting two young girls in sexualized attire

The social media company, formerly Twitter, has for weeks allowed its in-house AI program Grok to create unauthorized, sexualized images of women stripped of their clothing and child sexual abuse material (CSAM) based on users’ prompts

Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are set for another U-turn — this time over massive increases in business rates for pubs, which threaten to close the nation’s drinking dens down

UK Workers’ Rights Package to Cost Firms £1 Billion Annually

Claire’s and The Original Factory Shop (TOFS) collapsed putting a combined 2,500 jobs at risk amid ‘extremely challenging’ conditions on the high street

Chancellor Rachel Reeves needs to find a few achievements of her own