Campaigners Claim The Royal Family Costs Britain Half a Billion Pounds Each Year
Anti-monarchist group Republic has compiled the estimation.
Six key takeaways from Keir Starmer’s first conference speech as Prime Minister
It’s the final full day of Labour’s first party conference in power since 2009, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer has just had ...
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Volodymyr Zelensky takes his war to small-town America
But Starmer is more suited to the serious than the starry-eyed. (As one conference attendee put it yesterday, he has the ...
Warning more pensioners could be plunged into poverty after shock stats released
Liberal Democrat work and pensions spokesman Steve Darling said in response to the DWP statistics: “Hundreds of thousands ...
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Starmer: There is light at the end of the tunnel but ‘this will be tough’
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his Chancellor Rachel Reeves have said a brighter future will require tough decisions now ...
DWP eligibility change branded 'evil' as Winter Fuel Allowance cut
The new Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) eligibility change has been branded "grotesque" by some pensioners ...
‘Pension death tax’ on the cards as Reeves looks to raise cash
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has "no easy options" to raise some extra cash and could implement a pension death tax, AJ Bell ...
Labour’s light at the end of the tunnel looks more like a speeding train
“Growth is the challenge, investment is the solution,” the Chancellor said in a speech to the Labour Party conference so ...
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'Tax reforms should focus on stability, competitiveness and practicality'
Due to the idiosyncrasies of the parliamentary calendar, when the chancellor stands at the dispatch box on October 30, parliament would have actually spent more time in recess than it has spent ...
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Labour needs to find its purpose
This is the politics of and rather than or with Starmer attempting to root himself in the common ground of public opinion: ...
Opinion
Bid farewell to Labour’s nanny state – their bully state has arrived
As we await Labour’s Halloween Budget, it is difficult to know if we are being subjected to an example of masochistic media management so we sigh with relief after the event, thinking “it wasn’t that ...