On Thursday in Hull, the PM gave a speech that echoed the rhetoric of every Conservative prime minister since Margaret Thatcher. The “state has become bigger, but weaker,” he complained; Britain needs ...

The long-delayed programme to renovate Airedale General Hospital and build a new maternity centre in Leeds could be affected ...

Many of the country's most prestigious private schools are being hit hard with cost cutting measures seeing pay, pensions and jobs being axed, a new poll has revealed.

As they entered office in mid 2024, one thing was certain about Labour’s plan for growth: they did not have one. There was no ...

Britain’s economy shrank at the start of the year, official figures showed in a major blow to Rachel Reeves’s ambitions to ...

The labour market is beginning to "crack under the weight of higher costs and increased regulation", warned Mr Jessop.

Rachel Reeves has doubled down on the need to reform the welfare system, insisting the Government must “get a grip” on it ...

Mass migration, downplaying authoritarianism and green activism is putting Britain on a path to "irreversible decline" as a ...

If chancellor Rachel Reeves is to realise her promise of growth, she must put a stop to the fiscal hokey-cokey – two steps forward, two steps back, says James Moore. But the omens aren’t promising ...

Liz Kendall, work and pensions secretary, is next week expected to announce savings of £5bn a year. Sound the alarms, writes John Rentoul ...

The GDP figures for January won’t have made happy reading for Rachel Reeves this morning, with GDP down 0.1 per cent on the ...