The FTSE 100 index closed up 48.51 points, 0.6%, at 8,823.20. The FTSE 250 jumped 250.09 points, 1.2%, at 21,702.58, and the ...

Sir Keir Starmer has announced his latest U-turn: a £1.5bn change of course over his flagship welfare bill. The prime ...

Move partially reverses sell-off prompted by investor fears chancellor would be sacked after emotional PMQs appearance ...

Patients will be given more control of their health via the NHS app, while there will be less reliance on hospitals, the plan says.

Professor Aditya Goenka explores what the economic and political problems of the amended welfare reform bill will mean for the government.

Labour’s Rebecca Long Bailey said the Government’s argument against compensation for the 1950s-born women is ‘bizarre’ and ...

REC boss Neil Carberry has hit out at Ws Streeting’s NHS blueprint for claiming staff banks were cheaper than using agencies.

Former cabinet minister Lord Hain said he would have been labelled a "terrorist" for campaigning against apartheid in South ...

When it comes to the angry farmers, changes to the inheritance tax loophole announced in last autumn’s budget generated the most noise. But an arguably more devastating policy introduced by chancellor ...

The body of Labour peer Lord David Lipsey has been recovered from a river in Wales by police. The House of Lords member was ...

The UK’s main stock indexes rose on Thursday in broad-based gains after British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office gave ...

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