‘You are not the thought police’, Chris Philp to tell police chief summit

The shadow home secretary will call for a change in the rules about the way police handle Non-Crime Hate Incidents (NCHIs).

Kemi Badenoch: Conservatives will reverse cruel, unfair ‘family farms tax’

Kemi Badenoch has said the Conservative Party would reverse the so-called “family farms tax” if it returns to government.

Contingency measures in place if farmer protests intensify, minister confirms

Farmers will take to the streets of London on Tuesday to protest against the government’s inheritance tax plans.

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar pledges to reinstate winter fuel payments

A Scottish Labour government would reinstate the Winter Fuel Payment in Scotland, Anas Sarwar has announced. The move will be seen as a rebuke of the UK Labour government’s decision to scrap payments to most pensioners. Thousands of pensioners are facing losing the allowance this winter after the prime minister confirmed cuts to the winter […]

Former MPs Caroline Lucas and Dominic Grieve to lead anti-Brexit charge

Former MPs Dominic Grieve and Caroline Lucas have been unveiled as the new co-presidents of European Movement UK. 

Streeting ‘compromised’ government neutrality by expressing assisted dying views, says Harman

Parliament will debate the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on 29 November. It is marked as a free vote by the government.

Labour government must ‘reconnect’ with Elon Musk, Mandelson urges Starmer

Peter Mandelson is tipped as the frontrunner to become the UK ambassador to the US, with a decision expected within days. 

Rachel Reeves ‘not satisfied’ as economic growth slows to 0.1%

The economy grew by just 0.1 per cent in the third quarter of this year, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

‘It’s not the 1970s’: Minister rules out four-day week for civil servants

A minister has dismissed calls from civil servants to move to a four-day week, telling advocates of the reform “we are not living in the 1970”. Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) have said that working a four-day week is “critical to attaining a good quality of life” and could save the government […]

Labour failure could lead to ‘Nigel Farage as prime minister’, says Lord Blunkett

A Labour grandee has warned the UK could “end up with Nigel Farage as prime minister” if the government fails to improve people’s lives.