The Latest Breaking News from Whitehall

Labour now says the botched high-speed rail project will be further delayed. Why not just scrap it, as the Reform leader suggests? asks Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Just months after stepping down from the most powerful job in Whitehall, Simon Case is building a public profile warning of doom and gloom across the world. Is it right that top civil servants take sides and scare the public after leaving office? And if he cares so much now,…

Rachel Reeves didn’t utter a word about this disaster in her spending review. Yet there’s a colossal £25bn more earmarked for it, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the extra cash for England’s health service would create ‘an NHS fit for the future’.

The Scottish Secretary was speaking after Chancellor Rachel Reeves laid out her spending plans for the next three years.

Officers are investigating after a vehicle was abandoned near Downing Street

Sources say cuts to force headcount remain ‘a possibility’ as Yvette Cooper last minister to reach spending agreement

COMMENT: Labour MP for Dover and Deal Mike Tapp despairs at the endless consultations and internal turf wars that stifle government action, and says that Whitehall must operate with a sense of mission, not maintenance

Constantly short-changed by London, Cymru needs a voice in Westminster – but the obsolete role of Welsh secretary is not it, says Guardian columnist Will Hayward