The Latest Breaking News from ​​Rishi Sunak

PM insists he can cut taxes in a recession and says Conservatives’ ‘plan is working’ despite heavy losses in Kingswood and Wellingborough

Gen Kitchen takes seat for party for first time since 2001 general election to temper fears after testing week

City Comment: This is as much a political recession just as much as an economic one

Shadow chancellor’s No 10-style press conference given extra credence by decision to drop £28bn green pledge, Labour sources say

No10’s chief strategist was responsible for the Rishi Sunak’s slick social media image

No pandemic, no lockdown, but no economic growth either. Britain has slipped into recession, official figures confirm, as GDP shrank by a worse than expected 0.3 per cent in the three months from October to December, following a 0.1 per cent decline in the previous quarter.

Britain is in recession, official data showed Thursday, dealing another blow to embattled Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, whose Conservative party is forecast to lose a general election expected this year.

Labour aiming to win two byelections as chancellor defends Sunak’s record, saying ‘economy is turning a corner’

Governments try to generate a feelgood factor before an election. The UK has the opposite: a feel-bad factor