Government debt edges towards £3 trillion as spending outpaces revenues, piling pressure on Chancellor John Healey ahead of next month’s Budget Labour has been dealt another blow over the state of the ...

Families due to arrive at Manchester Airport this morning (Tuesday 22 September) after leaving Mauritius, with some Chagossians saying they are too frightened to speak publicly for fear of reprisals.

Britain has spent £78 million returning 1,400 Channel migrants to France under the Government's 'one in, one out' deal, at an average cost of £56,000 a head, Shabana Mahmood has told MPs. Under the ...

Eleven European Union member states, among them three of the bloc's largest economies, Germany, Italy and Poland, are calling on Brussels to stop producing new laws for twelve months and spend the ...

The average diesel price is now less than 4p from the all-time record set four years ago. And if supplies fail, the Government's emergency plan for the pumps is written and waiting.

Households containing foreign nationals received a record £11.9 billion in Universal Credit last year, with £7.7 billion of the payments going to households classed as jobless, according to government ...

Every Crown Court in England and Wales is to have a courtroom dedicated to rape and serious sexual offence cases, as Conservatives warn Labour must tackle delays without “undermining” the right to ...

No Answer Andy’s Circus, Where Everything Is Going Up Except Confidence. Welcome back, dear readers, to another riotous week beneath Westminster’s Big Top of Blunders, where No Answer Andy is still ...

Labour is reportedly considering dramatically widening its so-called “mansion tax”, potentially dragging around 270,000 homes into the levy before the controversial charge has even come into force.

Britain is moving to develop a new long-range anti-tank weapon to restore a capability the Army has been without for more than 30 years. Defence minister Luke Pollard has announced that MBDA and ...

Starmer's former rural minister now admits the raid on family farms was a Treasury blunder dressed up as policy. Labour's assault on Britain's family farms is unravelling from within, as the party's ...

One of Britain’s most successful industrialists has delivered a damning assessment of the country’s direction, warning that high taxes, excessive welfare spending and government energy policy risk ...