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 Boris Johnson has greenlit funding for a new multibillion-pound nuclear power station, triggering concerns among some of Liz Truss’s allies that it could limit her economic vision. Whitehall sources confirmed […] 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 Food poverty campaigners have criticised MPs, peers and their staff for throwing away vast quantities of food while families struggle to eat. 2.6 million meals worth of food waste was […] 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 Labour has accused the government of having “lost the plot” over plans for GPs to prescribe people cash to pay their energy and heating bills. Officials in the Treasury reportedly […] 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 The energy price cap could triple by April with bills rocketing to £6,000, according to a new forecast, as business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng was reported to be planning a clampdown […] 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 The Labour Party has opened up an eight point lead over the Conservatives, according to polling which suggests both remaining Tory leadership candidates now trail Sir Keir Starmer as the […] More
Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak are being urged not to “sideline” the climate crisis in their Tory leadership race, amid growing alarm that this issue is being forgotten. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) says […] 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 Liz Truss looks almost certain to become prime minister in just over two weeks’ time: but in 2009 her rise to the top was nearly prematurely halted by a few […] More
Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter The government needs to have a “serious conversation” about how to tackle soaring demand for higher education to make sure poorer students don’t miss out, the university admissions […] More
