After a series of missteps and about-faces, British prime minister Keir Starmer’s popularity has tanked, and his leadership ...

“Suffice to say that market focus is now quickly shifting to the political dynamics as opposed to Budget speculation,” said Sanjay Raja, chief UK economist at Deutsche Bank. Wes Streeting has renewed ...

Rachel Reeves denies breaking Labour manifesto pledge not to raise taxes – but admits she is asking people to pay more ...

The answer is that it points to the emergence of a new and increasingly paranoid style in British politics – one which ...

Nigel Farage has been warned his controversial plans to introduce stricter rules for legal migrants will spark “tear families apart”. The Reform UK leader says he wants to abolish indefinite leave to ...

UK government bonds fell sharply on Friday as Rachel Reeves ditched plans to raise income tax in this month’s Budget. Gilts sold off despite efforts by the Treasury to signal that the planned increase ...

Labour MPs are preparing pitches to become the party’s next deputy leader as the contest to replace Angela Rayner heats up. Dame Emily Thornberry became the first high-profile figure to announce she ...

Conservative activist Thomas Moffitt faced protesters at London School of Economics while discussing socially conservative ...

It is the small hours of the morning and outside the Red Bar in central Belgrade, there are a dozen or so travelling England supporters making themselves heard ahead of a World Cup qualifier against ...

The government faced criticism after it emerged that a migrant sex offender who was mistakenly released from prison was paid ...

That's pretty much the way all of the Scandinavian systems went (Swedish/Norwegian BankID, and in Denmark, NemID was rebranded MittID). Generally called a personal number rather than a tax number or ...