On welfare, the Tories talked a good game on reforming the system – yet after more than a decade in power they left with the ...

Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, is expected to make cuts in welfare spending a centrepiece of her update on the state of the ...

This is an audio transcript of the Political Fix podcast episode: ‘Starmer’s ‘Project Chainsaw’: the NHS, Whitehall, welfare ’ Lucy Fisher Hello and welcome to Political Fix from the Financial Times ...

The Greater Manchester mayor says a new railway line between the two cities that he has been lobbying for is the 'missing link' ...

The official statistics showing 2.5 million people were on UC for health reasons at the end of 2024, up from 2million in 2023 ...

The Department for Work and Pensions is planning to modernise health and disability benefit services for all claimants ...

A lecture delivered by the Minister for European Union Relations, The Rt Hon Nick Thomas-Symonds, at the Centre for European ...

Zelensky says Kyiv ‘fully committed’ to peace talks as 14 killed in missile strike - Donald Trump said Russia’s strikes on ...

A leading economist says the chancellor is likely to make spending cuts rather than increases to tax to pay for defence ...

NHS England will be scrapped under major reforms aimed at cutting waste and bureaucracy, Sir Keir Starmer announced on ...

Shadow Commons leader Jesse Norman said Labour is becoming progressively more Conservative while it is in office.

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