The Chancellor promised to end the Carer's Allowance cliff edge on Budget eve, but the statement laid before Parliament says the taper will begin only within 2030-31, after the next general election, ...

Defra has told Surrey MPs three times this month that the River Thames Scheme is undergoing a 'reset' and that no timetable is available, despite promising an updated business case by summer 2026.

Fifty-three posts with diversity-related job titles, among them two RAF wing commanders and a Royal Navy commodore, carry an estimated £2.7 million salary bill at the Ministry of Defence. The figures, ...

The maximum penalty is not new. That is the first thing to establish about the Respect Orders that came into force across England and Wales on 26 October, because it is the thing ministers are least ...

Chancellor John Healey is expected to increase alcohol duty in Wednesday's Budget, despite warnings from industry leaders that higher taxes could put further pressure on struggling pubs, breweries and ...

The £400 billion that Labour's AI Opportunities Action Plan said AI could add to the economy came from a 2023 report commissioned by Google, ministers have confirmed. The Government's own newer ...

The Defence Secretary has told the country to prepare for a potential war by 2030. The Chancellor resigned from that same job in June because the Treasury would not commit to a date for 3 per cent of ...

Four months after promising Makerfield he would not re-run Brexit, the Prime Minister wants an "honest discussion" about readmitting EU free movement, and his Housing Secretary says nothing is "off ...

Shadow Transport Secretary Richard Holden has accused Labour of putting its trade union paymasters ahead of passengers and taxpayers after ministers confirmed a new railway union agreement contains no ...

HMS Protector, Britain's only ice patrol ship, missed last year's Antarctic season and has been towed to Devonport with propulsion defects. Ministers say a successor is funded in the Defence ...

Labour’s handling of criminal justice has come under renewed scrutiny after it emerged that the Metropolitan Police is scaling back enforcement of certain electronic tagging breaches, just weeks after ...

With Westminster seemingly stumbling from one controversy to the next, the cost of living continuing to weigh heavily on families and Britain's political leadership struggling to inspire confidence, ...