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Exclusive: Groups say chancellor needs to kickstart renewed drive to help cut bills and reduce emissionsA coalition of charities and campaigners have demanded the chancellor funnel more funds into making Britain’s leaky housing stock energy efficient a…
Chancellor, who announces budget on 15 March, considers move to offset rise in corporation taxJeremy Hunt is considering giving UK companies tax relief on capital investment at next week’s budget to offset a sharp rise in corporation tax from April and…
Thinktank says 2010-2019 spending would have been £540bn higher had previous plans been stuck toA decade of austerity by the Conservative-led governments after 2010 resulted in more than half a trillion pounds of lost public spending and a weaker econo…
Rishi Sunak and Ursula von der Leyen say ‘Windsor framework’ has been reached after four months of negotiationsQ: Why do you say you will back the PM’s deal when you have not seen the detail? And would you like to see Northern Ireland within the scope …
Thinktank warns austerity drive at next month’s budget will further damage economyRishi Sunak’s government is hiding £28bn of “stealth cuts” to public services over the next five years, according to a report warning that a renewed austerity drive at ne…
Not too late for Jeremy Hunt to ‘end the political obsession of regulation, high taxes and interference with business’ in spring budgetFormer home secretary Priti Patel has called on the chancellor to reverse plans for a rise in corporation tax for big…
RCN suspends 48-hour strike in England planned for March with health secretary to meet union leaders. This live blog is now closedNurses in England pause strike action to enter ‘intensive’ pay talksMinette Batters, president of the National Farmers’ Un…
Michael Gove’s department banned from spending money on new capital projects without Treasury approvalMichael Gove’s government department has been banned from spending money on new capital projects without Treasury approval amid concerns about how wel…
Former PM insists, however, that it is unfair to blame actions she took in office for rising mortgage ratesLiz Truss has admitted cutting the 45p tax rate was a “perhaps a bridge too far” but said it was not fair to blame her mini-budget on rising mort…
Business secretary responds to former prime minister’s article about her decisions in No 10Liz Truss’s tax-cutting agenda “clearly wasn’t the right approach” before the government had tackled inflation, the business secretary, Grant Shapps, has said in…