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Ministers have announced a clampdown on people who continue to claim child benefit payments even though they have moved abroad, in measures that could save the…

David Lammy has joined 20 other foreign ministers around the world in condemning Israeli plans to build an illegal settlement on the West Bank, with the…

A campaign group that won a legal victory on the definition of gender is taking action against the Scottish government over policies it says are “inconsistent”…

Ministers plan to turbocharge their school improvement programme to tackle regional inequalities, aiming to export the success of London’s high-achieving pupils to England’s most struggling schools.Bridget…

Ministers have vowed to tackle England’s “entrenched” educational gaps that are leaving some regions and groups trailing far behind their peers and closing off options such…

Britain’s tax debate has changed. Previously the argument was whether there would be rises in an autumn budget. Now the only question is which levies the…

The co-founder of Palestine Action has accused ministers of making false and defamatory allegations about the banned group, and of contradicting their own intelligence assessments in…

Ministers who earn profits from privately owned property could be seen as hypocrites by voters who want to see the government’s promised rent reforms become law,…

NewsFeedFootage from a forest in Ghana’s Ashanti region showed smouldering wreckage from a helicopter crash that killed the country’s defence and environment ministers. Three other officials…

Ministers in Scotland are facing intense criticism over a sluggish increase in exam passes by teenagers from deprived areas after repeated promises to greatly improve performance.Opposition…