9 h. ago ANDREW NEIL: Starmer's shape shifting has left Britain with a government we didn't vote for. A reckoning is coming

To break one manifesto promise may be regarded as unfortunate. To break two in one week is not so much careless - as Oscar Wilde would have it - as par for the course.

Politics

22 h. ago Businesses are changing their recruitment strategies after Budget, poll shows

Businesses were largely spared from targeted tax hikes in the Budget but some measures set out by the Chancellor could indirectly affect firms.

Economics

34 h. ago ANDREW NEIL: It accidentally leaked the Budget and gets its forecasts wildly wrong. Yet George Osborne's unelected quango has more power over Chancellors than ever

The premature publication of the Budget by the Office for Budget Responsibility was just about the only reason for a chuckle in what was a pretty grim day for the country and the economy.

Politics

55 h. ago ANDREW NEIL: This is a watershed moment in our economic history that will consign Britain to a Lost Decade

In the end it was the old-fashioned Labour tax-and-spend Budget. But it was even worse marked a new era for Britain in which taxes and public spending remain permanently elevated.

Economics

4 d. ago 650 jobs at risk as metals recycling firm files for liquidation

Unimetals Recycling plays a key part in Britain’s steel industry.

Events

5 d. ago JAMES REBANKS: When World War One broke out, Britain had six weeks of food reserves and the government was terrified. Now it's just six days...

For years, British farmers have warned the nation's food system is broken. The Government insists there is no need for a fuss, accusing farmers of being tax dodgers, out of touch or, worse, Conservatives.

Events

5 d. ago Taxpayers still shell out for civil servants to go on Pride rallies

Official figures show that the Cabinet Office paid £3,244 to four different organisers of LGBTQ+ events across Britain this year so that groups of government employees could join in.

Economics

7 d. ago ANDREW NEIL: No amount of arm twisting will stem the tide of licence fee refuseniks

Instead of shining a light through the fog of digital distortion which blights all our efforts to learn the truth, BBC News has become part of the problem, not the solution, writes ANDREW NEIL.

Politics

8 d. ago Britain's broken finances get WORSE: Government borrowing balloons ahead of Budget leaving Rachel Reeves under even more pressure

The Chancellor was urged to get a tighter grip on spending after the Office for National Statistics revealed public sector borrowing stood at £17.4billion in October.

Politics

8 d. ago This is modern Britain – where a princess pleading for children’s rights seems almost radical | Gaby Hinsliff

It is uncomfortable to watch royals appealing to the nation’s best instincts while an elected government feels compelled to chase our worstEvery child has the right to feel safe, loved and as if they belong.Put like that, there is nothing remotely radical about what the Princess of Wales used her first public speech since recovering from cancer to say: that families need consistently nurturing environments to flourish; that the world could actually use a bit more tenderness; that we are all responsible for the culture in which future generations grow up; and that (as she told an audience of blue-chip employers) caring for others is work deserving of respect. It’s the reasons why those motherhood-and-apple-pie values don’t always prevail in real life, rather than the values themselves, that are generally too contentious for the carefully apolitical royals. Yet what were once safe, bland nothings are increasingly no longer so – and not just because of the awkward shadow now cast over ...

Politics

8 d. ago 60% of farmers ‘at financial risk from supermarket buying behaviour’ – survey

Some 69% of farmers believe the buying relationship between growers and retailers has deteriorated in the last two years, the poll found.

Economics

8 d. ago Major changes to immigration rules for legal migrants unveiled by Home Secretary

Shabana Mahmood said to settle in Britain for good is ‘not a right, but a privilege’ as she unveiled major changes to immigration policy

Society

8 d. ago Home Secretary outlines overhaul of rules for legal migrants

Shabana Mahmood said to settle in Britain for good is ‘not a right, but a privilege’.

Society

9 d. ago A senior White House official has told me the REAL threat to Trump. Epstein is a humiliating distraction. But he's losing grip fast... this could be fatal: ANDREW NEIL

The manner in which Donald Trump was forced, in the end, to agree this week to the publication of the Epstein files should worry the President far more than anything that might be in them.

Events

1 week ago US lawmakers demand Andrew testifies as they vote on Epstein files: 'There's been a reckoning in Britain. We need that here'

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie spoke outside the Capitol on Tuesday ahead of the vote on the Epstein bill, which later sailed through the House - passing by 427 to 1.

Politics

1 week ago SAM GREENHILL: This is how the Afghan data breach disaster was uncovered and why I was threatened with jail

The Daily Mail's Sam Greenhill and David Williams were the first journalists to uncover a secret £7 billion government operation to smuggle Afghans into Britain.

Events

2 w. ago ANDREW NEIL: The Chancellor looks haunted, distraught, even helpless. This is why I now believe there's every chance of a financial crisis

There is an increasingly haunted, distraught, even helpless look about her. She must know her second Budget is likely to be her last.

Events

2 w. ago AD FEATURE: ‘We don’t like to waste energy,’ – how one Port Talbot couple are using their smart meter to save money

Neil Jones and partner Andrew have found they can save by tracking their gas and electricity consumption

Politics

2 w. ago Homelessness is increasingly hard to ignore – unless you are the Labour party | Simon Jenkins

The government is focused on building new homes for floating voters, while landlordism is discouraged and homes stand empty As opera-goers trooped into the London Coliseum this week, three helpless drunks were camping on the adjacent front steps. One was struggling to stop another pulling down his trousers – or possibly helping him. In Chandos Place around the corner, half a dozen more were bedding down out of the rain. Over the road, staff at the hallowed St Martin-in-the-Fields homeless charity were under siege.There is only one housing crisis. It is not the lack of somewhere nice to live. It is the lack of somewhere to sleep. Rough sleeping is vagrancy, and illegal in England and Wales under the Vagrancy Act. It means the police can “move you on”. The government promised to “develop a new cross-government strategy” to “put Britain back on track to ending homelessness” in its election manifesto, so next spring it is scrapping the 19th-century act. Rough sleeping will be decriminal...

Society

2 w. ago Shutdown latest: Funding bill moves to House vote as Democrats face reckoning after joining Republicans

Chuck Schumer faces calls to step down as top Democrat as Congress prepares to pass shutdown-ending funding bill

Politics