The Environment Secretary says the public, not shareholders, should decide where billions of pounds of water investment goes. Ministers will ask Parliament to repeal Margaret Thatcher's restrictions ...

The Afghanistan inquiry has cost the taxpayer £58m and has run for more than three and a half years without publishing a finding. As it drags on, the association representing more than 5,000 serving ...

BRITAIN entered October with another deeply uncomfortable warning about the state of the economy as long-term Government borrowing costs surged through 6 per cent for the first time since 1998. As ...

Labour’s flagship “one in, one out” migrant deal with France has been brought to an end little more than a year after it came into force, after failing to operate on anything like the scale ministers ...

HUNDREDS of prisoners are being released early across England and Wales today as Labour’s controversial new sentencing regime comes into force, with domestic abusers, stalkers and violent offenders ...

Andy Burnham has used his first Labour conference speech as Prime Minister to reopen the question of Britain’s relationship with the European Union while unveiling plans to change the voting system, ...

Vickrum Digwa murdered the Southampton student and then told police his dying victim had racially abused him. On 5 November the Court of Appeal will decide whether his sentence was too long, while the ...

Households face another punishing winter of rising energy costs, with the typical annual bill now forecast to approach £2,000 in January, as renewed turmoil on international energy markets exposes ...

Burnham says someone has to "rip the plaster off". From April 2030, the current triple lock goes, and the savings are ...

Carpenter, Labour's minister for nature and rural affairs, told a fringe meeting at her party's conference that a nostalgic vision of Britain built around warm ale, a black Labrador and a country pub ...

He guarded Ismail Haniyeh for Hamas. Britain gave him asylum, then a passport. Now German prosecutors say Mr X, as the courts call him, was involved in an alleged plot to attack Jewish community ...

Great British PAC has committed a further £10,000 towards the next stage of a Judicial Review brought by Chagossians challenging the Government’s handling of decisions over the future of the Chagos ...