10+ hour, 40+ 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, 9+ hour ago   (1536+ words) Government borrowing costs surged last week, with the yield on benchmark 10-year gilts touching 5.294 per cent on Wednesday, its highest level since August 2007. Britain has been caught up in a wider international bond sell-off, intensified by renewed conflict in the…...

2+ week 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…...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago   (480+ words) conservativepost.co.uk In an unassuming stretch of the Thames Estuary, one of the smallest ships in the Royal Navy has been quietly carrying out one of the most consequential missions in recent maritime security work: mapping the riverbed that…...

3+ week, 3+ 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, 9+ hour ago   (705+ words) The measures will apply to developments involving more than 150 homes, commercial schemes exceeding 15,000 square metres and buildings more than 30 metres tall. Mayors covering Greater Manchester, Liverpool, the West Midlands, West of England, North East, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, York and…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (299+ words) conservativepost.co.uk Angela Rayner spent years telling the country that MPs should be barred from holding second jobs, calling the practice “beyond shameful.” She said it as a sitting MP. She never stopped being one. And she cashed in…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1215+ words) Nick Timothy, the Conservative MP for West Suffolk and Shadow Justice Secretary, has written to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government demanding answers after, he says, the department claimed that evidence submitted to the Government’s Working Group on…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (202+ words) This is not the first time Mr Burnham has staked his reputation on ending rough sleeping. As his very first act on becoming Mayor of Greater Manchester in 2017, he launched “A Bed Every Night,” pledged 15 per cent of his own…...

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....