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Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said she will make “necessary choices” in the Budget after the “world has thrown more challenges our way”. In an unusual pre-Budget speech in Downing Street, Reeves did not rule out a U-turn on Labour’s general election manifesto pledge not to hike income tax, VAT or National Insurance. When journalists explicitly asked if the government was ...

A new digital ID scheme will help combat illegal working while making it easier for the vast majority of people to use vital government services. Digital ID will be mandatory for Right to Work checks by the end of the Parliament. * Prime Minister announces plans for free digital ID for those living in the UK * Will curb the ...

LONDON, Nov 2 : Nine people were treated for life-threatening injuries after a series of stabbings on a train near Cambridge in eastern England on Saturday, and two men were arrested in what Prime Minister Keir Starmer called an “appalling incident.” British Transport Police said counterterrorism police were supporting its investigation whilst it works to establish the full circumstances and ...

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor arranged a private tour of Buckingham Palace while the late Queen was in residence, for businessmen from a cryptocurrency mining firm which agreed to pay his ex-wife up to £1.4m, the BBC can reveal. Jay Bloom and his colleague Michael Evers were driven through the palace gates in the former prince’s own car after being collected from ...

Buckingham Palace has confirmed Andrew has been removed from the official roll of the peerage, effectively meaning he has lost his Duke of York title. Andrew Mountbatten’s name will no longer appear on the official roll. Dukes are listed on the roll of the peerage maintained at the Crown Office, and, as Lord Chancellor, David Lammy is responsible for maintaining ...

Prince Andrew hosted Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Harvey Weinstein at Royal Lodge, the prince’s private home in the grounds of Windsor Castle. The trio visited the Windsor mansion as part of his daughter Beatrice’s masked ball 18th birthday celebrations in 2006, two months after a US arrest warrant had been issued for Epstein for the sexual assault of a ...

Lucy Powell has been elected as Labour’s new deputy leader after a race triggered by Angela Rayner’s resignation last month. The Manchester Central MP defeated Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson by promising to give grassroots members a louder voice and push for a “course correction” in government. She was sacked from the cabinet in September and drew support from members who ...

Plaid Cymru have won the by-election in the Senedd seat of Caerphilly for the first time. The Welsh nationalist party secured 15,960 votes – and candidate Lindsay Whittle cried as the result was announced. Mr Whittle is 72 years old and had stood as a Plaid candidate 13 times since 1983. He will now hold the seat until the Senedd ...

King Charles III arrived in Rome on Wednesday for a state visit to the Vatican, where he will meet Pope Leo XIV and become the first British monarch in five centuries to pray publicly with a pontiff since the Church of England’s split from Rome. The visit comes amid renewed controversy surrounding the king’s brother, Prince Andrew, following new allegations ...

Two abuse survivors have quit their roles in the government’s inquiry into grooming gangs. Fiona Goddard and Ellie-Ann Reynolds resigned from the inquiry’s victims and survivor’s liaison panel on Monday in protest at how the government had handled the process. In her resignation letter, Ms Reynolds said she felt the inquiry had become “less about the truth and more about ...