SIR Keir Starmer insists he has “the balls” to take an axe to Britain’s bloated benefits bill. After two weeks of market turbulence, economists and banks have doubted the Labour government’s ...

A rout in UK bonds has evoked memories of the market crisis during Liz Truss’s calamitous premiership and raised questions ...

The chancellor is caught in a credibility trap, where abiding by one promise made in the name of credibility undermines ...

COMMENT: Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Helen Whately says winter fuel payment cut is either gross incompetence or wilful ...

Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage's right-wing Reform UK is Britain's second most popular political party and sits just one ...

With the class struggle suppressed and Labour in power, opportunity has been given to the far-right to scapegoat migrants for ...

Starmer’s Labour government is risking patient safety by shifting burdens instead of solving systemic issues. Though he ...

Labour badly needs some tangible signs of progress that it’s delivering on its pledge to bring about a decade of national ...

Tulip Siddiq, the niece of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, had been named in an embezzlement investigation ...

What a time to be a socialist! Particularly of the cork-popping kind. Picture them in their artillery emplacements, ...

More important is the actual hit to the government debt bill. Two-fifths of the rise in government spending since the ...

As any football fan knows, statements of support from the board are rarely followed by good news. As in football, so in ...