The 2024 Autumn Budget in one word? Big. What we got from Rachel Reeves today was, in economic terms, a major departure from economic policy as we’ve...
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Chancellor Rachel Reeves has finally unveiled the budget for 2024. Here are the key points: Follow live budget updates • The budget will raise taxes by £40bn...
The budget will increase taxes by £40bn, with the lion’s share coming from a £25bn rise in employers’ national insurance contributions, the...
The Labour manifesto never did add up. On the one hand, Keir Starmer vowed there would be “no return to austerity” under his government, while also...
Budgets are all about numbers. In the coming 24 hours, we’ll be engulfed with all sorts of figures – about the state of the economy, about the size...
A significant fire has broken out at the UK’s nuclear submarine shipyard in Cumbria. Videos and pictures posted on social media show flames and smoke...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves will promise to “invest, invest, invest” in Labour’s first budget for 15 years. Ms Reeves – who is set to...
Budgets are all about numbers. In the coming 24 hours, we’ll be engulfed with all sorts of figures – about the state of the economy, about the size...
Portuguese football club Sporting have confirmed they have received an approach from Manchester United for their manager, Ruben Amorim. Sporting also said the...
The teenager accused of stabbing three girls to death in Southport faces a separate terror charge after police said a biological toxin and an al Qaeda training...
Former Conservative MP Aaron Bell carried out “brazen and drunken” sexual misconduct in the parliament bar, a watchdog has found. The former MP for...
Lowri Williams is struggling to cover her basic expenses. Earning a low income with very little support, she says she feels like she’s “living hand...
A new radioactive therapy has shrunk a man’s deadly brain tumour by half, in what experts hope could be a breakthrough cancer treatment. Paul Read, a 62...
Police are appealing for witnesses after two people were shot in east London. Two men, aged 25 and 27, were taken to hospital after the shooting on Thorne...
Young adult care leavers are nine times more likely to become homeless than their peers, a charity has said, calling on the government to find an end to the...
Thousands of Oasis tickets listed on unauthorised sites will start to be cancelled “in the coming weeks”, promoters have warned. There was huge...
