For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The number of Britons earning less than the real living wage is set to soar to 5.1 million next year, new research shared with The Independent has found. Around 3.5 […] More
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 An expected hike in the windfall tax on oil and gas could result in the Treasury paying more in tax relief to companies investing in the North Sea than the […] More
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 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz strongly criticized the Iranian government Saturday for its bloody crackdown on protests in the country said Germany stands “shoulder to shoulder with the Iranian people.” Scholz […] More
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 Former health secretary Matt Hancock has insisted he does not regret his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Mr Hancock told fellow contestants on ITV’s I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out […] More
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 was today warned not to plunge the UK into a new era of austerity, as fresh polling showed voters would prefer to see taxes rise than cuts inflicted […] More
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 A breakthrough deal between the UK and France to combat Channel crossings by migrants could be ready within the next week, it has been reported. The agreement, which would see […] More
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 Plans for a “family photo” of world leaders at the G20 summit in Indonesia next week have been scrapped because presidents and prime ministers were unwilling to stand alongside an […] More
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 Nadine Dorries said she hates people saying she must “fancy” Boris Johnson, as the Tory MP rejected the idea that she was anything other than friends with the former prime […] More
