Budget 2021: Funding for Tory-held towns ‘looks fishy,’ says Starmer
But Prime Minister Boris Johnson defends allocations from the Towns Fund as “completely impartial”....
Brexit: Stormont leaders at odds over UK-EU protocol row
Arlene Foster says the EU is ignoring unionist concerns, but Michelle O’Neill says Number 10 is acting in bad faith....
Budget 2021: Rishi Sunak insists Covid-recovery tax rises fair
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is accused of hitting the poorest hardest in his Budget plan to balance the books....
MPs to debate petition to ban LGBT conversion therapy
Thousands signed a petition calling on ministers to fulfil a pledge to outlaw the practice....
Covid: First Minister Mark Drakeford self-isolating
Mark Drakeford self-isolating after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for Covid....
Budget 2021: ‘Scrooge Sunak not levelling with people’ on cuts
The Budget leaves the chancellor looking more Scrooge than Santa, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies....
Covid-19: Starmer calls for bigger pay rise for NHS ‘heroes’
The Labour leader was responding to a government recommendation of a 1% increase for staff in England....
Nurses’ union anger over ‘pitiful’ 1% NHS pay rise
The government will face a public backlash if it does not pay staff more, the RCN union warns....
Philip Rutnam: Ex-Home Office boss settles unfair dismissal case
Home Office boss Philip Rutnam quit his job over what he claimed was “vicious” briefing against him....
Budget 2021: UK’s tax burden to ‘reach highest levels since 1960s’
Chancellor Rishi Sunak says decisions made in his Budget might not be “popular” but are “honest”....