The UK achieving herd immunity from COVID was a “clearly ridiculous goal of policy” and “very dangerous”, England’s chief medical...
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Here are the main announcements from Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement to MPs: The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predicts an average...
National insurance is to be cut by two percentage points, the chancellor has announced. In a boost to employees’ pay packets, Jeremy Hunt told the...
Public sector borrowing reached the second highest level for any October since records began, according to official figures, casting doubt on the prime...
Jeremy Hunt will claim the economy is “back on track” in an autumn statement that is expected to prioritise tax cuts and economic growth. The...
Allowing mass gatherings in the early days of the pandemic was “logically incoherent” to the public and gave a false impression of...
If Rishi Sunak wanted to walk tall on the world stage, perhaps David Cameron was an unfortunate choice as his foreign secretary. The prime minister chose to...
For months the chancellor and his team have been billing tomorrow’s big announcement as an autumn statement for growth, the final heave if you like...
It’s autumn statement time. Once upon a time, these winter budgets used to be brief updates on the fiscal forecasts, never overshadowing the far more...
Downing Street has said it made a “mistake” after it uploaded a social media post celebrating Northern Ireland using the Irish tricolour. Number 10...
The national living wage will rise to £11.44 per hour from April. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced he is accepting the recommendation from the Low Pay...
There is a “duty on citizens” to work if they are able to, a government minister has said. Chief secretary to the Treasury, Laura Trott, told Sky...
Before 7 October, Elizabeth El-Nakla was a grandmother, a retired nurse and the mother-in-law of Scotland’s first minister. After that day, she became...
Sir Patrick Vallance today detailed the tug of war in government in the run up to the first and second lockdowns – and in the course of it, made some...
David Cameron has officially taken his seat in the House of Lords – where he will go by the title of Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton. The foreign...
Rishi Sunak thought the government should “just let people die” rather than see the country go into another lockdown, Dominic Cummings is said to...