Keir Starmer takes a political gamble with message of bad news
Sir Keir Starmer could perhaps have timed it better. On the day that Oasis, the band that symbolised the mood of sunny optimism that...
Keir Starmer warns autumn budget will be
Keir Starmer hinted at tax rises as he said the upcoming October budget would be 'painful', in his first major speech from No 10 since...
UK ministers give KPMG £223m contract despite consultancy spending pledge
The UK government has awarded KPMG a £223m contract to train civil servants despite pledging to slash state spending on external consultants.
Under the 15-month...
Reeves could raise £10bn a year by reducing pension tax relief, report says
Rachel Reeves could raise at least £10bn a year through a radical shake-up of pensions that would make tax relief less generous to better-off...
The Guardian view on the future of public transport: time to invest and think big | Editorial
Following the general election, the National Audit Office (NAO) released a report that offered a tragicomic epitaph to successive Conservative governments’ spectacular mismanagement of...
Ruth Davidson: ‘It took me ages to work out that people weren’t any better than me’
I’m a Scottish mongrel. I grew up in a village in Fife, but was born in the Scottish Borders to working-class parents. My dad...