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The chancellor is vowing to “take the fair and necessary choices” in today’s budget, as she seeks to grow the economy while keeping the...

A headline tax-raising measure expected in today’s budget is an extension of the freeze on income tax thresholds for another two years beyond 2028,...

Reports of a “board-level orchestrated coup” at the BBC are “complete nonsense”, non-executive director Sir Robbie Gibb has told MPs. Sir Robbie, whose position...

Police bodycam footage allegedly shows a Palestine Action activist attacking police with a sledgehammer during a break-in at an Israel-based defence firm’s UK site,...

Former prime minister Lord Cameron has revealed he has been treated for prostate cancer. The former Tory leader, who was PM from 2010 until...

Eight men have been arrested in connection with the attempted murder of a couple in Newcastle, police have said. A man and a woman...

Sitting on the benches inside the synagogue, just metres from where last month’s attack in Manchester began to unfold, chairman Alan Levy remembers it...

A Royal Navy patrol ship has intercepted two Russian vessels off the UK coast, the Ministry of Defence has said. It comes after Defence...

A 13-year-old girl has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman in Swindon. Police said the teenager was detained following an incident in...

Ovo Energy, one of Britain’s biggest domestic gas and electricity suppliers, is preparing to take an axe to its workforce next week as part...

Rail fares are to be frozen for the first time in 30 years, the government has announced. Ministers promised that millions of rail travellers...

Sir Keir Starmer has urged anyone with information on the Jeffrey Epstein case to come forward after Andrew Mountbatten Windsor missed the deadline to...

How best to summarise how badly the government fumbled the UK response to the COVID pandemic? Baroness Heather Hallett, the chair of the inquiry,...

All four UK governments failed to appreciate the scale of the threat posed by COVID-19 or the urgency of the response the pandemic required,...

Fresh yellow weather warnings for ice have been issued for many areas of the UK, as some areas are threatened with blizzard conditions on...

They’ve said they are offering him an opportunity to tell them everything, once and for all. But as we hit the two-week deadline set...

Two women have appeared in court charged with attempting to defeat the ends of justice after a man was found dead in a field...

Russia has accused the British government of “provocative statements” and an “escalation of militaristic hysteria” after the defence secretary warned a Kremlin spy ship...

Scotland secured a place at the men’s World Cup for the first time since 1998 as stoppage-time goals by Kieran Tierney and Kenny McLean...