21+ hour, 23+ min ago   (668+ words) The treaty still hasn’t been ratified: it stalled in Parliament, was paused by the government itself in April 2026 after Washington turned hostile to the idea, and Prime Minister Andy Burnham has now said he wants to push it through regardless....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (526+ words) It marks the sharpest one-day move in the UK’s borrowing costs since May, and comes just weeks before Chancellor John Healey is due to deliver a Budget that markets are already treating with deep suspicion. While ministers will be tempted…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (314+ words) He is expected to take on a dual role covering foreign affairs and defence, an area Badenoch’s team regard as central to her strategy for the party. Tugendhat learned of his new post while in Taiwan discussing the challenge posed…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (147+ words) Even the balloon animals are confused. Which brings us neatly to Granny. And behind all this sits the question Labour never quite manages to escape, how much taxation is too much? You would need the flexibility of a circus contortionist…...

3+ week, 13+ hour ago   (179+ words) Then came Angela Rayner, whose relationship with political consistency provided another fine performance. After previously arguing for restrictions on MPs earning money from second jobs, reports revealed she had herself received £182,000 from outside work. Labour’s contortionists normally require decades of…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (717+ words) His comments were made in an interview with The Telegraph, published on Friday, August 21, in which he expressed disappointment with Labour’s performance in government and criticised its approach to taxation and business. Mr Caudwell had supported Sir Keir after being…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (257+ words) Economists had actually expected the government to break even in July, a month that typically benefits from a wave of self-assessed tax payments from the self-employed. Instead, a 7.2 percent jump in benefit spending, adding roughly £2 billion, brought the monthly welfare…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (215+ words) Ministers will, of course, point to global pressures, and it is true that turbulence abroad, including the fallout from the conflict in Iran, has pushed up petrol and energy costs. But a competent government is judged not on the excuses…...

4+ week, 21+ hour ago   (147+ words) It was a day built for pride. Families filled the stands, flags snapped in the breeze, and a military band in scarlet uniform provided the soundtrack as the young recruits marched in perfect formation, rifles at the ready, colours held…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (374+ words) That sounds ridiculous, of course. But mission creep usually does until it happens. Governments have an unfortunate habit of acquiring a power for one exceptional purpose and gradually discovering a dozen perfectly well-intentioned reasons to use it for something else....