Browsing: Ministers

China threatened to cancel high-level trade talks with the UK earlier this year over a government minister’s visit to Taiwan, the Guardian can disclose.Beijing told the…

While many aspects of UK political polling have shifted drastically since 2019, the public’s view on Shamima Begum has remained largely fixed: a big majority do…

Ministers are poised to allow homes in England to be built without carbon-cutting technology in what experts have said is a climbdown after pressure from housebuilders.The…

Ministers will come under mounting pressure to introduce curbs on gambling advertising this year, as MPs and campaigners latch on to polling that indicates widespread public…

Ministers should legislate to cap political donations to “rebuild voter confidence” in democracy, campaigners have said before the introduction of a landmark elections bill.The government is…

Ministers will increase the threshold for taxing inherited farmland from £1m to £2.5m after months of pressure from campaigners and MPs representing rural areas.In a statement…

The government has broken its promise to protect nature by weakening planning rules for housing developers, groups have said.While developers once had to create “biodiversity net…

Ministers are expected to back calls to regulate England’s funeral industry for the first time, after a series of scandals over the handling of remains.Bereaved families…

Ministers are working to ban political donations made with cryptocurrency but the crackdown is not likely to be ready for the elections bill in the new…

Ministers are to reduce the rising cost of funding special educational needs provision through their overhaul of the system, as they faced calls to explain how…