John Healey has asked junior Treasury staff – including IT workers and apprentices – to send him ideas for his October budget, saying he will listen to all suggestions regardless…
Child trust fund providers are being put under the spotlight to check they are treating savers fairly and doing all they can to reunite young people with lost accounts. The…
A British family is pleading with French authorities to release the body of a relative that officials have held for five months after he died in the Channel in April.…
Children need a better education in sniffing aromas, a leading historian of smells has said, noting it may improve their wellbeing and help them understand the world around them. Dr…
Ministers are considering a shake-up of the government’s social mobility watchdog that could range from giving it more teeth to abolishing it outright. The move comes amid concerns that the…
Senior Reform UK figures like to boast that the summer time – and parliament’s longest recess – is when the party makes hay. Supposedly, it’s when Nigel Farage and co…
Sir Mel Stride has been replaced as shadow chancellor as part of Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch’s reshuffle. He is being replaced by Andrew Griffith, the party announced. Claire Coutinho, previously…
Andy Burnham should call a cross-party meeting to discuss the UK’s response to worsening extreme weather, including the forthcoming ‘super El Niño’, the Liberal Democrats have said. The prime minister…
From the outside, the seven-storey building at 2 America Square looks like any other office block in the heart of London’s financial district. Located about half a mile from Tower…
An eight-year-old girl is in a stable condition in hospital and a 16-year-old has been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder following an incident at a house in…
