Kemi Badenoch has become the latest Conservative Party MP to enter the leadership race to replace Rishi Sunak. The shadow housing secretary pledged to tell voters the truth as she launched her bid to become leader. It comes as former home secretary Suella Braverman announced she had pulled out ofContinue Reading
Labour is fast-tracking plans to prove its socialist credentials by passing laws that will see Britain’s railways renationalised before the next general election. The plans to bring “broken” private rail ownership back into the public sector would mean a programme of nationalisation on a scale not seen since before MargaretContinue Reading
Rachel Reeves could raise £10bn a year in wealth taxes as she looks to plug a massive hole in the public finances left by the Conservatives, according to a new report. The left-leaning Resolution Foundation think tank says the chancellor could find the cash to fund Labour’s plans for power,Continue Reading
Robert Jenrick has told Tory members there will be no deal with Nigel Farage if he is elected leader of the party to replace Rishi Sunak. The former home office minister, who resigned because he did not think Mr Sunak was strong enough on the Rwanda deportation flights, has emergedContinue Reading
Angela Rayner will unveil an overhaul of planning rules next week as Labour seeks to clear a path to building 1.5 million homes in five years. The deputy prime minister and housing secretary said that “delivering social and affordable houses at scale” is her “number one priority”. But the planningContinue Reading
Rachel Reeves is to lay bare the scale of Labour’s dire economic inheritance from the Conservatives on Monday, in a speech which could lay the ground for tax hikes and spending cuts in the chancellor’s first budget. She is expected to tell parliament that Rishi Sunak’s party left a £20bnContinue Reading
Dame Priti Patel is promising a revolution in the Conservative Party by offering to hand back some control of policy to ordinary party members and allow them to elect key officials. The leadership pitch by the former home secretary is an overt attempt to stop the flow of Tory membersContinue Reading
A senior US congressman has asked the new Labour government to rethink financial aid to Cuba due to concerns that the regime is supplying troops to Vladimir Putin to fight in Ukraine. Republican congressman Mario Díaz-Balart, who represents the 26th district in Florida and is the son of Cuban exiles,Continue Reading
This week, the world’s richest person launched an unseemly public attack on his estranged transgender daughter. In an interview released on Monday, Elon Musk – electric car entrepreneur, US government rocket contractor, and outright owner of the social media service X (formerly Twitter) – claimed that his daughter Vivian Wilson’sContinue Reading
Rachel Reeves is set to unveil a black hole in the public finances of around £20bn, signalling that tax rises could be on the way. The chancellor will on Monday set out the results of the spending audit she ordered Treasury officials to produce. The findings appear to confirm concernsContinue Reading
