eform is coming for Wales. That was Nigel Farage’s key message in Port Talbot today (9 September), as he fired the starting ...

At last year’s Budget, Rachel Reeves escaped her fiscal straitjacket through two manoeuvres: she raised taxes by £41.5bn and ...

Since the pandemic, the number of working days lost to respiratory conditions has more than doubled. Now accounting for 8.7 ...

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Rachel Reeves will publish the Government’s Spending Review, outlining the financial settlement for the coming three years.

Two days before her first Spending Review (which I preview here ), Reeves has announced that winter fuel payments will be restored to three-quarters of pensioners (or all those earning below £35,000).

How it works is unclear – psychiatrists often resort to the old metaphors used for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), “whacking ...

A cautionary tale for Labour’s potential 12 new towns is that of Northstowe, a new town north of Cambridge – Britain’s ...

Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay are experienced, and can win elections. But is it enough to beat the insurgent Zack Polanski?

Keir Starmer has asserted that Reform UK is his party’s main opponent – but Ed Miliband already knew that. The Secretary of ...

Healey was present – wearing his obligatory red tie – at the count centre in Widnes that night when Reform’s victory was ...