Scarcely a week goes by without some example of a Cabinet minister found to have exaggerated or even made up their ...

Britain’s jobs market suffered the worst start to a year since the depths of the Covid lockdowns in 2021, as hard-pressed ...

It follows a survey that revealed 70 per cent of businesses in the sector plan to reduce staffing levels as a result of the ...

The chancellor has given her backing to an expansion plan for the corridor connecting Oxford, Milton Keynes and Cambridge, ...

Steve Reed, the Environment Secretary, will use a speech this week to outline a shake-up in the awarding of public contracts ...

Recent analysis has shown that those who put money into a cash ISA could have trebled their money by investing into a stocks and shares ISA instead. The research comes following reports that ...

One pharmacist told The Independent he was ‘on borrowed time’ after going to his bank twice for extra money to stay afloat ...

Too often ‘gate’ is a pretty clear signal that some lazy journalism is about to follow. Remember Starmer and ‘beergate?' ...

Keir Starmer is expected to outline plans to hike Britain’s defence spending, The Independent looks at what has been said about the move ...

The UK’s payments regulator reportedly could be scrapped and folded into another regulator as part of efforts by No10 to slash red tape.

Andrew Pierce has urged Prime Minister Keir Starmer to overrule his Chancellor Rachel Reeves on accelerating defence spending ...

Ahead of a meeting with the US president, Sir Keir Starmer said the UK and Europe ‘have to do more for our defence and ...