39 h. ago DOGE eyed up by Scottish Labour as another UK party looks to copy Trump ‘waste’ policy

Scottish Labour has become the latest political party to outline plans for a UK equivalent of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, as British politicians look to copy US president Donald Trump's policy of tackling government 'waste'.

Politics

4 d. ago HSBC pushes back climate targets by 20 years and blames ‘lag’ in government policy

HSBC says factors ‘outside of our control’ means it’s targeting 2050 instead

Events

4 d. ago Starmer in public row with most senior judge over Gaza immigration decision

The PM doubled down on his previous suggestion that it was ‘for Parliament to make laws and for the government to decide policy’

Events

4 d. ago HSBC pushes back climate target for operations and supply chain by 20 years

HSBC says factors ‘outside of our control’ affect its ability to meet its climate targets.

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4 d. ago UK’s prison overcrowding crisis fuelled by ‘tough on crime’ talk, Labour’s new tsar finds

David Gauke, former Conservative justice secretary, has said longer jail terms have been a ‘knee-jerk’ policy response to show government action

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5 d. ago Labour set to jail fewer criminals as report blasts longer prison sentences as a 'knee

An official review of sentencing policy said a 'tough on crime narrative' adopted by successive governments had left the justice system on 'the brink of collapse'.

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5 d. ago UK’s prison overcrowding crisis fuelled by ‘tough on crime’ talk, Labour’s new tzar finds

David Gauke, former Conservative lord chancellor, has said longer jail terms have been a “knee jerk” policy response to show government action

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5 d. ago DWP slammed as Universal Credit childcare programme leaving parents 'worse off'

New research by the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) has found that the government's Universal Credit childcare scheme, which offers parents the option to cover up to 85% of childcare costs, is leaving some severely "out of pocket"

Society

5 d. ago Elon Musk: US should mind its own business instead of pushing for regime change

Elon Musk was critical of America’s “pushy” international policy as he addressed leaders at the World Government Summit in Dubai.

Politics