62 h. ago Cash ISA limit could be cut to £4,000 as Rachel Reeves ponders overhaul

The current limit is £20,000 across all ISA types per person

Economics

68 h. ago Labour row over benefit cuts as Rachel Reeves 'plots to reduce spending by £5billion but resist calls to spend it on defence or back

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is reported to want to cut the figure from state handouts for the disabled in her spring statement in March.

Economics

3 d. ago Denmark to spend billions on defence, citing fears over Russian rearmament

Mette Frederiksen says situation is ‘most dangerous’ in many years as she increases defence budget to 3% of GDPMette Frederiksen admitted that Denmark and other countries made a mistake by cutting their defence spending as she announced a 50bn Danish kroner (£5.5bn) package, saying: “It must never happen again.”The Danish prime minister increased defence spending to 3% of GDP in the next two years – up from 2.4% in 2024 – as she said Denmark needed a “massive rearmament” to avoid war. Continue reading...

Economics

3 d. ago Rachel Reeves meets with Britain's top investment bankers as she scrambles for economic growth

The Chancellor met with bosses from JP Morgan, Blackrock, Abrdn, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Citi, Fidelity and Schroders in Downing Street this morning.

Economics

5 d. ago Starmer vows to ‘spend more’ on UK defence but other areas face cuts

Departments asked to model savings of up to 11% as government battles chronic squeeze on public finances

Politics

5 d. ago Scottish MPs demand details after Sir Keir Starmer suggests sending troops to Ukraine

The Prime Minister has said the UK and Europe are facing a “generational challenge”

Politics

5 d. ago UK should be cautious after change in US policy over Ukraine, think tank says

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said European nations need to spend 5% of GDP on defence and would be responsible for peacekeeping in Ukraine.

Events

5 d. ago Badenoch slams UK’s failure to spend more on defence as Starmer set for emergency Ukraine summit: Live

Badenoch claimed Western civilisation was in crisis as she spoke to global right-wing leaders on Monday

Politics

5 d. ago As the US retreats, Europe must look out for itself – so is Macron’s nuclear offer the answer? | Simon Tisdall

Development of a joint defence shield would be politically explosive for Keir Starmer. But it’s an idea whose time has comeThe startling contempt for Europe’s intensifying security concerns displayed by Donald Trump and his henchmen has brought an old, controversial question back to the fore: should Britain and France pool their nuclear weapons capabilities and create a Europe-wide defensive nuclear shield to deter Vladimir Putin’s Russia, if the US reduces or withdraws its support?Trump has not so far explicitly threatened to cut US nuclear forces based in Europe. But speaking last week, the president said he wanted to halve the US’s defence spending, especially on nuclear weapons. Trump often denigrates Nato, keystone of European security. Last year, he encouraged Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to member states that, in his view, spend too little on defence. Continue reading...

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