Labour Chancellors are particularly good at it. Today’s Spending Review was Reeves’s first big opportunity to let loose.Spending public money is always more fun than the hard work of saving it,...
Seven ways the Spending Review will affect you21 minutes agoKevin PeacheyCost of living correspondentGetty ImagesAll the talk of departmental budgets and fiscal rules may feel somewhat distant from...
Net migration could fall to 200,000 in the next “year or so”, the Government’s migration tsar has revealed.Professor Brian Bell, Chairman of the Migration Advisory Committee, offered Sir Keir...
We quit our jobs, sold our home twice and spent 10 years fighting for the truth11 hours agoJames Melley and Alison HoltBBC News, Social AffairsFamily handoutWarning: This article contains upsetting...
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are facing a growing backbench revolt as civil war threatens to engulf Labour. Labour MPs seized Chancellor Rachel Reeves's humiliating u-turn on winter fuel payments...
A leading DIY retailer with 124 branches across the UK will close a store in just two weeks' time. Earlier this year, Hobbycraft announced plans to shut at least nine stores up and down the country...
British travellers should be able to use e-gates at airports in the European Union "as soon as possible", a minister has said. Under the terms of the Labour Government's Brexit "reset" agreement with...
British holidaymakers have received a boost as the UK Government announced that Faro Airport in Portugal has initiated the provision of e-gate access. The development is a result of an agreement...
You can almost smell the warm ale and faded dignity already: two blokes, one jukebox, and a sea of folded arms in a working men’s club somewhere between theghosts of the abandoned pits and the...
UK temporarily spared from Trump's 50% metal tariffs4 hours agoMitchell LabiakBusiness reporter, BBC NewsGetty ImagesThe UK has been temporarily spared from US President Donald Trump's executive...
Prince Harry was criticised by a royal author after reports claimed that he was allegedly eyeing changing his family name to Spencer – his mother, the late Princess Diana's name. The Mail on...
Poundland has confirmed the date that a store in a popular UK seaside town will close. Staff at the shop have been given notice of their redundancy after the budget chain was unable to "agree terms"...
Cruise missiles could hit and destroy a British city in just 90 minutes, according to the author of the Strategic Defence Review.General Sir Richard Barrons, a former British Army chief, warned towns...
Defence plan will ensure UK is ready for war, minister says47 minutes agoSam FrancisPolitical reporter•@DavidSamFrancisJonathan BealeDefence correspondent•@bealejonathanMinistry of DefenceThe...
At a glance: Key points from government's defence strategy14 minutes agoOscar BentleyPolitical reporterPA MediaPrime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has set out the government's defence strategy for the...