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Blow for Sunak as revised figures confirm UK did go into recession last year
Latest estimate from ONS says GDP declined by 0.3% in final quarter of 2023Business live –...
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Tory donor Frank Hester raised complaint about NHS contract with health secretary
Exclusive: Man who has now given party at least £10m copied Steve Barclay into email about...
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Dover health authority says inland border facility will be ‘open door for disease’
Sevington site was never designed to handle volume of imports envisaged by post-Brexit changes due in...
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Minimum wage is UK’s ‘most successful economic policy in a generation’
Resolution Foundation study suggests lowest earners are £6,000 a year better off due to policyThe minimum...
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Minister told to name sources in Afghan inquiry or face potential jail term
Johnny Mercer given 10 days to reveal source of claims British troops engaged in war crimesThe...
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Tories delete Sadiq Khan attack ad showing New York instead of London
Footage of people panicking, designed to attack the London mayor’s record on crime, was filmed in...
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UK ‘slow to hold China to account’ for cyber-attacks against MPs and voters
As deputy PM expected to impose sanctions, head of international alliance says ministers have taken years...
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Foreign Office merger has diminished UK’s aid capability, finds watchdog
National Audit Office says merging DfID with Foreign Office has led to loss of dedicated senior...
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Details of millions of UK voters accessed by Chinese state, ministers will say
Deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden to update MPs on cyber-attacks by Beijing, some of whom may...
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Cameron urged to publish Foreign Office legal advice on Israel’s war in Gaza
Labour presses foreign secretary as human rights groups seek judicial review of government’s refusal to ban...
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Simon Harris confirms he will run for Irish PM as party rushes to back him
Nearly half of Fine Gael parliamentary party endorses 37-year-old as string of potential rivals rule themselves...
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Work and pensions secretary Mel Stride suggests mental health culture ‘has gone too far’ – UK politics live
Minister says ‘labelling ups and downs of life as medical conditions holds people back and drives...
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Andrea Leadsom criticises civil service head’s Garrick Club involvement
Former Tory leadership contender says she would not join men-only club even if it changed rulesUK...
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Rachel Reeves says Labour wants ‘inclusive’ version of ‘decade of renewal’ that followed Thatcher’s election in 1979 – UK politics live
Shadow chancellor to deliver prestigious Mais lecture and will announce plans to rewire the TreasuryTribune, the...
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Only ‘one or two’ Tory MPs plotting against Sunak, says Badenoch
Business secretary dismisses reports of plot and rejects calls for her party to return donations from...
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Low-profile Lib Dems are flatlining in the polls – but don’t write them off
Reform UK is making the headlines but tactical voting can power Ed Davey’s party in seats...
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Starmer’s team coached for government over dinners with top Whitehall figures
Shadow ministers step up preparations by holding informal meals to pick the brains of senior political...
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Reeves to promise ‘decade of economic renewal’ if Labour wins power
Shadow chancellor will tell high-profile financial audience that ‘mission-led’ governments must take a lead in turbulent...
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Grant Shapps abandons Odesa trip due to Russian missile threat
Defence secretary warned by British intelligence that Kremlin was aware of his travel plansGrant Shapps was...
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Vaughan Gething or Jeremy Miles to make history as Welsh Labour’s new leader
Outcome of election paves way for first black head of a European country or the UK’s...
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Rishi Sunak rules out 2 May general election as report shows Commons working hours have fallen to a 25-year low – UK politics live
The average time the Commons spends sitting every working day is now at lowest level for...
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GPs call for health tech boss Frank Hester to resign after Abbott remarks
BMA committee votes in emergency motion after Tory donor’s comments about MP condemned as racist and...
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Put Thames Water into special administration, Lib Dems tell ministers
Exclusive: party calls for firm to be wound up as it seeks shareholder bailout, higher bills...
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Tories fear losing half their seats in May local polls as pre-election budget flops
Victories in councils won during Boris Johnson’s ‘vaccine boost’ of 2021 face wipeout, leaving Rishi Sunak’s...