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UK ministers have been ordered to search for cost-cutting reforms as the Chancellor plans to take “tough decisions” on welfare and spending...

Rachel Reeves had hardly stepped down from the dispatch box to make her first big statement as chancellor of the exchequer before facing a furious backlash. She had claimed to have discovered a £22bn hole in public finances upon taking office and was using it to explain why the new…

The Tories and Labour both withdrew support for candidates being investigated by the Gambling Commission – The Independent speaks to local party supporters who had been campaigning for them, and to voters

The PM trumpeted ‘a recording … admitting that their plans will cost hundreds of billions’. Was it fair to do so?

SCOTLAND is not a country but a “region of the UK”, one of Michael Gove’s most senior advisers has said ...

Letter from senior Treasury official says ministers were told not to present their costings as civil service figures

The Money Saving Expert challenged the Energy Security Secretary about the Tory tax allegation when she appeared on ITV’s Good Morning Britain

Keir Starmer aims to turn spotlight on Sunak’s career before politics in lead up to first general election TV debate

Labour’s leadership needn’t struggle to define the ideology; it’s in its very constitution