The Government believes a threatened rebellion over cuts to disability and sickness benefits will amount to little, but ministers face furth...

Families face a hammering of £1,000 to their annual budgets from next week as Labour's tax raids and inflation-busting bill hikes come into...

Labour plans to nominate the oldest member of the council to become the next deputy mayor of Brighton and Hove. Timothy “Ty” Galvin, who tur...

In a letter to Shabana Mahmood, the chairman of the Sentencing Council told the Cabinet minister he had refused her request to alter the gui...

A Labour cabinet minister's speech was disrupted by Pro-Palestinian protesters calling for an end to F35 exports to Israel on Thursday, 27 M...

Ed Miliband is riding high in the Labour popularity stakes but friends of the Energy Secretary fear there is a campaign within Government to...

3.6 million hours. That’s the total amount of time raw sewage was poured into rivers, lakes and seas in England and Wales in 2024. Collectiv...

Chancellor faces speculation she will be forced to find more money to balance the books

A Labour minister has apologised for comparing disability benefit cuts to children’s pocket money.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves today announced further welfare cuts as she confirmed changes for personal independence payment (Pip) and Universal...

If you listen to her critics, Rachel Reeves is obviously some kind of demon. She delights in robbing disabled people of their dignity. She’s...

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch took aim after Labour blocked a proposal to bar the use of smartphones in educational settings.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Labour colleagues sitting behind her in the House of Commons on Wednesday hoped these would be the worst of the c...

Labour chancellor set to squeeze Whitehall budgets by up to 7 per cent

Welfare recipients tell The Independent what losing their health-related benefits would mean to them