The Latest Breaking News from Whitehall

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'Our resources should be spent on front-line street scene staff not do-nothing commissioners milking the city dry'

For decades, Whitehall has pondered how to make use of the Commonwealth, without tangible results. There was an expectation in some quarters that Brexit would increase its significance to the UK. But it was never clear why this would, in itself, suddenly transform an under-resourced and notoriously unfocused organisation into…

INDEPENDENCE supporters are being asked to dig deep to help fight a “David and Goliath” legal battle around secret Government polling about the…

Jake Berry said the North could not afford to rely on politicians in Whitehall

The Labour leader will accuse ministers of ‘hoarding’ power in Whitehall and refusing to decentralise.

Proposals from centre-right think tank Onward would help put ‘rocket boosters’ under local economies, said Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen.

Boris Johnson made an unannounced trip to Kyiv instead of attending a Northern Research Group conference in Doncaster.

Ex-minister warns the Northern Research Group of Conservative MPs that red-wall voters did not give ‘an unconditional vote’.

Privileges committee investigating whether PM misled parliament when he said ‘no Covid rules were broken’

Tessa Milligan, Chair of Open Labour, says the party must pitch its vibrant local and regional voices against the tired old ham actors of Whitehall, spouting their meaningless and insincere three word phrases