Scottish finance secretary to freeze threshold for higher-rate income tax at £43,431 to help finance cuts for least well-off

Holyrood bill breaches law and Westminster holds sway over EU powers, supreme court rules

In 2016 Britain went to the polls to vote on our future relationship with the EU. But, argue John Curtice and his co-authors in a new book edited by Philip Cowley and Denis Kavanagh, the real Brexit referendum actually happened a year later

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Local authorities will be allowed to raise tax by up to 3 per cent to make up for government funding cuts