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Previous Tory leadership embarked on risky investment spree involving hotels and skyscrapersBusiness live – latest updatesWoking council has declared it is effectively bankrupt after admitting a risky investment spree involving hotels and skyscrapers o…
Figures suggest insolvency-threatened council in Surrey faces huge write-down on its assetsWoking council risks a financial hit worth £1bn amid a government investigation into the local authority’s debt-fuelled investment spree in hotels and skyscraper…
Prime minister says he is ‘very comfortable’ with controversial rules despite former business secretary’s admission of gerrymanderingRishi Sunak has defended new laws requiring voters to bring ID as “entirely reasonable” after Jacob Rees-Mogg suggested…
Find out which parties have won seats to Northern Ireland’s 11 local council areas after Thursday’s electionsOn Thursday 18 May people across Northern Ireland voted to elect new local councils, two weeks after many voters in England did the same. There…
Anticipated vote would be chance to take on a shaken SNP and send message to voters UK-wideOn Rutherglen’s Main Street, the mood of Scottish Labour activists was as bright as the afternoon sunshine as they gathered for some teatime door-knocking. They …
Focus group of blue wall residents believes Sunak is ‘out of his depth’ and that Britain needs change nowBlue wall Conservative voters in Surrey are far from impressed with the government’s obsession with culture wars, and remain unrepentant for tactic…
FoI requests reveal at least 90 councils top-sliced childcare budget to offset deficits or add to reservesMPs have expressed concern that local authorities in England are failing to pass on government funding for free childcare places to nurseries, aft…
PM’s costly helicopter trip to Southampton to announce prescription reforms underlines fears of some he is out of touchRishi Sunak flew to the south coast and back by helicopter to announce a new government health policy on Tuesday as he tried to calm …
In Hertfordshire’s towns, as across much of formerly ‘true blue’ England, the appetite for change proved decisively strongIt was little more than a year ago that Oliver Dowden stood up at Conservative spring conference to praise the “calm suburbia of H…
PM calls results ‘disappointing’, while Labour says it’s on track to win power at next general electionEngland local elections – latest updatesRishi Sunak has faced devastating losses of more than 1,000 Tory seats in the local elections, while Labour h…