Read about a legal challenge to a government policy of increasing national insurance contributions for health and social care ...

Proposals to create a “smoke-free generation” by gradually raising the age at which tobacco products can be bought have ...

Jake Richards’s Looked After Children (Distance Placements) Bill ran out of parliamentary time on Friday (House of Commons/PA ... also have to put together plans to assess the capacity for ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will acknowledge she needs to go ‘further and faster to kickstart growth’ in her spring statement .

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has set out her plans for the UK economy during her Spring Statement in the House of Commons. It ...

Speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday 26 March, Reeves asserted the measures announced in the previous Budget were ...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is running for elected public office for the first time, as the country is roiled by ...

The OBR forecast that the “investment rule” is also met two years early with net financial debt of 82.9% of GDP in 2025-26 and 83.5% in 2026-27 before falling from 83.4% in 2027-28, to 83.2% in ...

Statement comes amid dour predictions about her cost-cutting measures and as she scrambles for savings to help balance the ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has conducted her Spring Statement, at the same time that the Office for Budget Responsibility ...

The Somerset section of the M5 has also seen a number of crashes in the last 12 months which resulted in death or serious ...

Union boss Fran Heathcote, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union, has warned Rachel Reeves against ...