The United Kingdom has a relatively low corporate tax rate of 20 percent — compared to the US average of 39 percent — and will further cut it to 19 percent in 2017 and to 18 percent in 2020. Financial ...

Chemical castration has been considered for sex offenders as a way of reducing reoffending under new proposals to end prison overcrowding. An independent sentencing review led by former justice ...

Politics can be a brutal business sometimes, as former Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond can attest. One minute you’re pulling the nation’s purse strings, the next you’re pictured looking ...

David Gauke suggested that ending the reliance on ever-increasing custodial sentences could ease the crisis in prisons - Andrew Aitchison/Corbis Historical An over-reliance on a “tough on crime” ...

In his first speech as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, David Gauke called for consensus and collaboration to ensure a positive future for pensions, but admitted that it will take time to ...

"I want to be ambitious about our relationship with the EU to ensure that Brexit does not cause disruption or put us at a disadvantage when it comes to the recognition of legal professional ...

Seldom has an independent policy review commissioned by the government produced such a thorough, insightful, creative, rational and evidence-led report as that on sentencing now completed by David ...

David Gauke has defended the introduction of government’s Universal Credit benefit shake-up, despite backbench Conservative demands that it be paused. Speaking at a fringe event hosted by HuffPost UK ...

Exchequer secretary to the Treasury David Gauke has finally clarified the government's refusal to bring about planned tax relief for the UK games industry. Previously, official explanations have not ...

Ex-Tory Cabinet minister David Gauke has announced he will stand as an independent candidate at the General Election. The former justice secretary said he would contest the South West Hertfordshire ...

Macfarlanes has hired former Lord Chancellor and politician David Gauke back to the firm as its new head of public policy. Gauke, who was the Member of Parliament for South West Hertfordshire from ...

Prisoners in England and Wales, including some serious offenders, will be eligible for release after serving a third of their sentence under reforms. Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood told the Commons ...