The Latest Breaking News from Jeremy Hunt

Tom Waters, a senior economist at the IFS, says Hunt’s approach has been to freeze ‘everything he can get his hands on’

It had been hoped that two investment zones across Newcastle, Northumberland, and North Tyneside would create 23,000 new jobs and see 8,000 new homes built

The vast majority of payments will be made automatically, the Department for Work and Pensions said.

Reduction comes days after Jeremy Hunt pledged to remain world leader ‘in tackling global poverty’

MPs hear concerns that investment in North Sea oil and gas reduces the tax, effectively rewarding fossil fuels over renewables

Residents at The Spinney have been left infuriated by regular problems with the lift which serves its odd-numbered floors

The new payment was announced in last week's autumn statement

Society, wrote Edmund Burke in Reflections on the Revolution in France, “is a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.” This was one of the founding principles of modern Conservatism — but…

Benefits would be uprated from April 2023