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    Over-50s could get tax breaks to encourage them to back into work

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Rishi Sunak’s government is said to considering proposals to give over-50s tax breaks for getting back into work after a career break. The Treasury is discussing plans to encourage people […] More

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    Britons to spend average of £10,000 on energy bills during this parliament

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email UK households will be forced to spend an average of £10,000 on energy bills during the lifetime of this five-year parliament, new analysis has revealed. Labour said its analysis of […] More

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    Online safety laws need tightening to protect children on streaming sites – MP

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email The Government should tighten proposed internet safety reforms to prevent streaming sites such as Spotify being open to abuse by child groomers, MPs have heard. Labour’s Andrew Gwynne raised the […] More

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    Boris Johnson staff ‘had sex at No 10 lockdown party’

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Some of Boris Johnson’s staff are said to have had sex at a Downing Street party on the eve of Prince Philip’s funeral while strict Covid restrictions were still place. […] More

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    MP Andrew Bridgen ‘bombarded’ cabinet ministers with anti-vax messages

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email MP Andrew Bridgen “bombarded” cabinet ministers with Covid claims before he lost the Conservative whip for linking the vaccine to the Holocaust. Prime minister Rishi Sunak denounced the North West Leicestershire MP’s […] More