11+ hour, 4+ min ago   (274+ words) Former chancellor George Osborne said Britain’s economy has “fallen off a cliff” since Brexit and that rejoining the European Union’s customs union would be the fastest route to recovery. Mr Osborne, who resigned as chancellor after being part of David…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (721+ words) Scotland’s First Minister is pressing for talks with Andy Burnham over how a legal mechanism for a second independence referendum could be agreed. SNP leader John Swinney has written to the Prime Minister following his suggestion in the Commons that…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (491+ words) Plans to give England’s mayors the power to introduce a tourist tax will be set out on Thursday. The levy will be decided by local leaders and charged as a percentage of the cost of accommodation to overnight visitors, rather…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1193+ words) Hundreds of police officers lined the street at the funeral of a colleague who was killed in a collision on the A66. Standard bearers represented every UK force at the service for Pc Matthew Blades, 37, at St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (603+ words) National security “can’t come at the expense of social security”, the Prime Minister has insisted, as he criticised Tory plans to fund defence. Tory leader Kemi Badenoch used Andy Burnham’s second Prime Minister’s Questions to question whether the Government would…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (333+ words) Prime Minister Andy Burnham and his wife have joined the King and Queen at a church service in Scotland. Mr Burnham and Marie-France van Heel attended Crathie Kirk, a small, granite church on Royal Deeside, regularly visited by members of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (970+ words) Hundreds of “intimidating” black-clad and masked anti-illegal migrant demonstrators blocked roads in Dover during a protest. Footage showed the group, appearing largely to be men, dressed in black and wearing balaclavas, gathered at the Kent port on Saturday. A group…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (575+ words) The Government will speed up the building of hundreds of extra prison places with £110 million of investment, the Justice Secretary is to announce. Alex Norris will set out plans to speed up the building of new prison places as part…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (331+ words) Senior Conservative Sir James Cleverly has said he is quitting the shadow cabinet to stand for London mayor. The former foreign secretary and Braintree MP said the capital needs “more than an administrator” after seeing its reputation “slip, at home…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (535+ words) Thames Water’s creditors have revealed plans to appoint four new directors to the board of the stricken supplier if their rescue bid is given the green light to avoid it being nationalised. Former Yorkshire Water chief executive Liz Barber is…...