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Voters believe Labour are failing on the key issues facing the country, according to a new poll. The nationwide survey by Ipsos showed the public believe the NHS, inflation and immigration will be the areas most important to them when deciding who to vote for at the next general election. But in a blow for…
Rachel Reeves insisted “people’s hurt feelings” are not the most important thing as she faced fury over Labour’s handling of the grooming gangs scandal. The Chancellor refused to apologise for ministers’ comments during a national row, when people calling for a national inquiry into the rape and sexual abuse of teenage girls were dismissed as…
Rachel Reeves’ announcement that the winter fuel payment would be reinstated for those earning less than £35,000 has been welcomed by campaigners. The policy, introduced in the early days of the Government’s time in office, proved to be a political nightmare, with some Labour MPs citing it as one of the key factors in their…
Rachel Reeves has agreed to spend £14 billion of taxpayers’ money on a nuclear plant at Sizewell C. The chancellor will announce the move, which is part of her spending review, at the GMB Congress on Tuesday. It is expected to create 10,000 jobs, including 1,500 apprenticeships. Energy secretary Ed Miliband said the project, which…
Five million pensioners face paying extra tax to claw back their winter fuel allowance under Labour’s humiliating climbdown, it was claimed today. A complicated solution being mooted to defuse fury at Labour slashing the benefit – worth up to £300 – would see it handed to all the older generation this season. However, around half…
Billions of pounds of public money are to be spent on new transport projects across the Midlands and north of England as Labour tries to see off the threat of Reform UK. Rachel Reeves is ripping up Treasury rules so the government can invest more in Red Wall areas where support for Nigel Farage’s party…
The Government has pledged £1.5 billion as part of the strategic defence review into at least six munitions and energetics factories.
Darren Jones has said that winter fuel payments will ‘still be targeted to those that need it the most’.
But he was due to come under fierce criticism when he makes his statement to Parliament, shortly after midday, from the Conservatives and Mr Farage’s Reform UK, with particular anger over granting EU trawlers the right to fish in UK waters for 12 years.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is in Washington today for her first proper meeting with the Donald Trump’s treasury secretary, Scott Bessent. She has embarked on the Hail Mary trip hoping to convince the US to end tariffs on British goods, and in particular to scrap or cut the 25% tariff on imports of cars following warnings…
