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COMMENT: Allies insist that, after a gloomy start in the job, the chancellor had long planned to shift up a gear – but her announcement of a third Heathrow runway and a ‘Silicon Valley’ from Oxford to Cambridge felt suspiciously like someone in a hurry to correct her own mistakes,…

Exclusive: Pilots for staff training, jobcentres and speeding up disability benefit payments not being taken up

There is a new restlessness in Treasury and No 10, but some ministers fear forceful approach may signal panic

By sweeping aside everyone from local planners to defenders of the green belt, Labour is handing a gift to Reform UK, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Chancellor says new scheme aims to bridge gap between Whitehall and local leaders to avoid previous top-down approach

Dame Kate Bingham was commissioned by the previous government to help the UK secure vaccines during the pandemic.

Chillingly, in the BBC sitcom, Humphrey emerges as cabinet secretary, the most powerful position in the civil service

Some of the tools, named after the fictional Whitehall official Sir Humphrey Appleby from the BBC’s Yes, Minister, are ready for use straight away.

Chancellor survives chaos in markets but faces more questions on growth, cuts, public sector pay and fraud

Concerns had been mounting over future of £200m a year scheme providing food and activities for vulnerable children

Starmer open to second state visit for Donald Trump, amid worries about tariffs and recent setbacks to political relationship