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Inheritance tax for farmers to kick in at £2.5m, not £1m as planned, in government U-turn to help farming communityThe government has just announced a significant…

Keir Starmer has no coherent strategy to tackle entrenched inequalities harming the life chances of millions of people, the government’s social mobility commissioner has said.A report…

In 1981, IRA and other republican prisoners went on hunger strike in Northern Ireland, demanding the restoration of their political status. Ten would die; extraordinarily, their…

The UK government borrowed more than expected in November, official figures show, amid pressure on the economy before chancellor Rachel Reeves’s autumn budget.Figures from the Office…

A landmark strategy to protect women and girls from violence and abuse “falls seriously short” of the funding required to realise the government’s ambitions, campaigners have…

The opening of the long-awaited Leeds tram system has been pushed back by at least two to three years, after a government review of the £2.5bn…

English councils have received a new three-year financial settlement. But is it fair? Who are the winners and losers? Will your council tax bill go up,…

Jim Ratcliffe’s chemicals company Ineos has been granted £120m of government funding to help save the UK’s last ethylene plant at Grangemouth, in a deal expected…

Neglect is a political choice, and one with deep human consequences.That is what has struck me in the early months as secretary of state for work…

Government advised against moving ‘too early’ on Covid decisions, Sunak saysSunak recalls that in early conversations the “medical and scientific community” were advising the government against…