A surely unintended consequence of the spending review is that the Tories have been saved from political oblivion.

Rachel Reeves has created a make-believe world for herself and the storm clouds are already gathering for Labour.

IFS director Paul Johnson said he would be 'very surprised indeed' if heath and defence funding did not need topping up ...

Britain is becoming a “national health state” under Rachel Reeves, with treatment poised to account for half of all public ...

DWP officials said that only people born before an exact date would get the money. It said: “The Winter Fuel Payment for 2025 ...

As part of the Chancellor's spending plans, the Treasury suggested that local authorities would hike bills by 4.99 per cent a ...

Reeves’ advance U-turn on winter fuel already marked a return to more familiar territory. Labour MPs struggled to defend a policy that removed the benefit from almost all pensioners. Now, with it ...

The core spending power of councils is set to increase by 2.6% a year from next year, and “if English councils do choose 5% ...

Laurence Fox could face trial in 2027 over allegations he shared a compromising photo of TV star Narinder Kaur on social ...

Labour MPs have called for a “crackdown” on “dodgy” vape, barber and souvenir shops, which a minister warned “undermine the ...

They are followed by books that focus more closely on the interconnections between the oceans and climate change. Two books then examine “the ocean economy,” both in miniature – what’s happening to ...

Rachel Reeves’ spending review has been slammed by leading economists who said it was not a “serious department analysis”.