Labour has won the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election from the SNP in a shock result, with Davy Russell elected as the new MSP fo...

Cold warNOTHING more sums up the madness of Government thinking than not being prepared to fund 3.5 per cent of GDP on defence, but deci...

IT’S rare that I drop into the foetal position and reach for the Pepto-Bismol BEFORE my night out. But that’s what I found myself doing...

Editorial: After years when the party seemed to be undeclared disciples of austerity, the government’s conscience – prompted by some shockin...

Exclusive: As a cabinet civil war heats up over her spending review, Rachel Reeves has written for The Independent defending her motivations...

As ever, controversy has been sparked by a video which was posted by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. On Wednesday night to mark the fourth birthd...

A complicated solution being mooted to defuse fury at Labour slashing the benefit - worth up to £300 - would see it handed to all the older...

Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari: labour market is showing some signs of slowing downinflation rate still not back to 2% targetthere...

THE Labour government has been less than a year in office and yet its authority has already collapsed dramatically.A mood of desperation...

Jodey Whiting, 42, from Stockton-on-Tees, had been asked in January 2017 to attend a work capability assessment before her payments were sto...

Government plans to reform the pensions industry and allocate people’s retirement savings towards private investment could end up leaving th...

Chancellor is facing a push to consider wealth taxes instead of cuts before she publishes her spending review next week

MPs fear the so-called “Red Wall” will collapse unless ministers take more radical action to stop small boat crossings, as ministers appeare...

Bhubaneswar: In a tragic incident, four labourers died due to suffocation during the construction work of a septic tank at Padalguda village...

Official figures show migrant arrivals were far lower when Conservative ministers were poised to finally launch Rwanda removals flights last...