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  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Keir Starmer
    Labour denies ‘transparency’ issue after clothing donation to Starmer’s wife

    Prime minister broke parliamentary rules by failing initially to declare gift from Waheed Alli

    Keir Starmer and wife Victoria
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    UK employment
    Employers could sidestep upgrade of UK workers’ rights, government warned

    Simplifying employment status will be key to success of Labour’s measures, say lawyers and unions

    People protest in London’s Leicester Square with a banner reading ‘No to zero hours’ as part of a campaign for higher wages in 2018
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Saving Grangemouth jobs tests Scotland’s shift to net zero

    ‘Project Willow’ draws up alternatives for refinery ahead of planned 2025 closure

    Night view of Petroineos Grangemouth petrochemical plant and refinery in Scotland
  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    UK prisons
    Labour has no plans to lift ban on prison officers striking

    Government ministers reject calls to repeal legislation despite union warning the decision would be seen as a betrayal

  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    UK infrastructure
    Delayed Transpennine rail upgrade reviewed again ahead of Budget

    Electrification of Manchester-Leeds route being studied for potential cost savings

    A TransPennine Express train
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Biden indicates shift in Ukraine’s deployment of Storm Shadow missiles

    Washington had feared that using weapons risked escalating conflict with Russia

    Tornado GR4 aircraft carrying two Storm Shadow missiles under the fuselage
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Northern Ireland
    London scraps funding for Euro 2028 stadium upgrade in Northern Ireland

    Hilary Benn blames move on ballooning cost of rebuilding Belfast’s Casement Park for Uefa tournament

    Panoramic view of Casement Park GAA stadium in Belfast
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
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    Tories pay £2,000 to cling on to ministerial red boxes

    The souvenirs have become collector’s items, with Margaret Thatcher’s selling for £242,500 at auction

    Jeremy Hunt poses with the red Budget Box
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Harland & Wolff Holdings PLC
    Titanic shipbuilder Harland & Wolff probes £25mn ‘misapplication’ of funds

    Interim executive chair says he has launched an ‘independent’ investigation

    Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
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  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Climate change
    UK court quashes Cumbrian coal mine plan

    Decision to block first new colliery in 30 years highlights shift away from fossil fuel projects under Labour government

    An artist’s impression of the proposed Woodhouse Colliery
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    LexUK banks
    Higher bank taxes would be an economic own goal Premium content

    Taxation can affect banks’ ability to lend

    Rachel Reeves delivers a speech at the Treasury in London.
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Russia expels 6 UK diplomats over spying allegations

    Moscow’s move comes ahead of talks between Keir Starmer and Joe Biden on war in Ukraine

    Moscow skyline featuring the Saint Basil's Cathedral with its colorful onion domes, the Spasskaya Tower with its clock, and other historic buildings with spires and domes.
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Starmer has convinced people of the dire challenge but he must respond with action

    Labour hopes to exceed people’s rock-bottom expectations, but recent poll suggests it must do more to win confidence

    UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    And the Budget changes most feared by FT readers are . . . 

    Attendees of the FT Weekend Festival are selling assets and passing on inheritances ahead of October’s Budget

  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    ExplainerUK public finances
    Why is Reeves considering changes to the UK’s government debt target?

    Chancellor is exploring tinkering with Bank of England bond accounting

    A montage of stacks of coins, a yard stick used as a line graph and the logo of HM Treasury
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Food diet
    Starmer to ban TV junk food ads before 9pm in public health drive

    PM says he is prepared to be bold in tackling public health through prevention, even in the face of opposition

    A hand taking potato chips from inside a bag
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Transport for London
    TfL warns of customer data breach after cyber attack

    Bank details of 5,000 passengers may have been accessed it admits after teenage suspect is arrested

    Commuters board a tube train at Bank station
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    UK public finances
    UK government finances are on an ‘unsustainable’ path, watchdog warns

    Demographic pressures and the costs of climate change will weigh on the public finances, says OBR

    An elderly woman holding pound coins
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Scottish economy
    Scotland on ‘mission’ to pursue private finance for green projects says Forbes

    Government in talks with investors in clean energy to fill gap left by declining North Sea oil sector

    Kate Forbes
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Chris Giles
    Reeves should tackle excessively generous pensions taxation

    The chancellor must be careful not to increase the damaging incentives in the tax system as she seeks sources of revenue

    Senior citizens wrap up warm to do shopping in Northwich
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    ExplainerNational Health Service
    ‘Dire’ NHS report shows scale of Starmer’s turnaround challenge

    Crisis gripping health service in England is ‘laid bare’ in damning review by Lord Darzi

    Montage shows an NHS medic protesting against cuts in front of backdrops of anti-austerity banners, an image of the coronavirus, small change and a frail elderly person
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    UK political party funding
    Frank Hester gave Tories extra £5mn before election

    Official data confirms businessman, who apologised for ‘rude’ comments about Diane Abbott, as Conservatives’ biggest ever donor

    Frank Hester speaks at a Commonwealth Business Forum event
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    UK crime
    UK police and crime minister’s purse stolen at police conference

    Diana Johnson’s belongings stolen from hotel where she gave speech to members of Police Superintendents’ Association

    Dame Diana Johnson, the minister for policing, fire and crime prevention
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    National Health Service
    NHS to receive ‘no more money without reform’, says Starmer

    Prime minister warns health service will take a decade to repair after damning report

    Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting stand in open shirts holding drinks
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