The prime minister has warned there is "no magic wand" to solve the financial crisis at Birmingham City Council. Sir Keir ...

In a speech to Labour conference, briefly interrupted hecklers, the chancellor promises not to take risks with the public's money.

The chancellor will use her speech at the Labour conference on Monday to announce she has reversed a Conservative approach to “waive” £674m worth of disputed contracts, as her party attempts to ...

The PM used security grounds to defend his use of a free hospitality box at Arsenal's Emirates stadium in an interview with ...

The pound will rise in value against the dollar over the next year, Goldman Sachs has predicted, in a boost for British ...

New details about the plans for Old Trafford, a new train line from Manchester to Liverpool and a football regulator have ...

Rachel Reeves stands by winter fuel allowance cut as nurses reject 5.5% pay rise - Nurses pay deal rejection raises fears of ...

The Independent’s political team will be reporting live throughout the Labour Party conference in Liverpool. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has defended the government’s winter fuel policy as she swerved ...

Starmer to tell UK there is ‘light at the end of this tunnel’ in keynote speech - Keir Starmer will deliver a message of hope ...

Durham County Council leader Amanda Hopgood tells Mike Hughes why the new North East Combined Authority is a force for good ...

REGULAR correspondents to the letters page such as Jill Stephenson, Gerald Edwards and Robert I G Scott no doubt have their own reasons for ...

Supreme Court sides with the taxman by ruling that if there’s a contract, there’s mutual obligations -- thereby removing MoO as a future outside IR35 ‘battleground’.