The Latest Breaking News on UK Politics

Move reignites row over Labour figures with private interests having access to government

LABOUR’S watered-down plans to reform the House of Lords have passed their first parliamentary hurdle.

Defence secretary says army personnel will drop below 70,000 next year - lowest since 1793

Business body covering pubs, hotels and restaurants says budget tax change would increase costs

Rachel Reeves has hinted she plans to put up the tax in the budget but some businesses have voiced concerns

British lawmakers are voting on a bill to strip hereditary aristocrats of the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords after more than 700 years

Labour has read its John Maynard Keynes. It unleashed the “animal spirits” of a possible economic bounceback at its first investment summit yesterday, with an upbeat Keir Starmer pledging to “improve Britain’s brand” and promising a land of opportunity for global investors — and some “heritage Yookay“ experience thrown in…

Passages in the former Tory PM’s memoir ‘Unleashed’ have been disputed since it was released – including his claim he was asked to give Prince Harry a ‘manly pep talk’

Did Labour rule out a rise to National Insurance Contributions in its election manifesto? The document states that the party would “not increase taxes on working people”, including NICs. Yet every day, the signal grows clearer that employer National Insurance is set to rise.