Over the weekend, the Treasury indicated a set of tax reforms aimed at addressing the pandemic’s large impact on public coffers. According to the leak, measures being considered by the
Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak have vowed to keep taxes low, in a coordinated attempt to calm mutinous Tory MPs angered and unsettled by the government’s handling of the coronavirus
Britain loves a bargain – even, as it turns out, during a global health emergency. Dismissed as a gimmick at first, the government’s eat out to help out scheme has
6.01am EDT 06:01 NHS staff should be given at least weekly coronavirus tests from September, Jeremy Hunt has said. Hunt, the former health secretary who now chairs the Commons health
7.24am EDT 07:24 Nick Fletcher, a Conservative, says Doncaster needs a new hospital. Johnson says he will be visiting Doncaster very soon to discuss this. 7.23am EDT 07:23 The SNP’s
There are some glumly predictable tropes and cliches that Britain – and more particularly England – does not need to be bombarded with this weekend. These include: independence day; super
8.27am EDT 08:27 Libby Brooks Scotland’s education secretary John Swinney says that schools are likely to continue with the ‘blended learning’ model from August until the end of the next
7.02am EDT 07:02 Boris Johnson starts by saying Sunday is the third anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire. He offers his condolences to the families of the 72 people who
News that Rishi Sunak is planning a summer mini-budget conjures up memories of the 1970s when chancellors were constantly forced to respond to the latest economic crisis. Sunak is finding
Harriet Harman, the chair of parliament’s joint committee on human rights (JCHR), has called for MPs to be allowed to vote on a data protection bill safeguarding widespread use of
