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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…

The New South Wales government has been warned it can no longer approve coalmine developments after the state’s climate agency found new expansions would be inconsistent…

A mining company developing a goldmine in the central west of New South Wales has told the federal court the government did not properly assess a…

Overbearing health and safety rules are stopping Britain building new infrastructure, according to the economist whom Keir Starmer has cited as an inspiration for his growth…

Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate Maria Corina Machado has declared that authorities in her home country would have attempted everything possible to prevent her…

Local authorities in England and Wales have warned their finances are at “breaking point” with more councils expected to fall into bankruptcy in future, as they…

The government has delayed its decision on whether to approve China’s super-embassy in London until January, when Keir Starmer is expected to visit Beijing.Ministers are expected…

Re your report (‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response, 20 November), shortly after lockdown began, my family lost an aunt and uncle…