Peter Kyle meets group of teenagers at NSPCC HQ who say imposing ban would reduce their social connections

Sector will have extra £2.8bn cost burden from April due to tax and wage rises announced in budget, says Nuffield Trust

Today in Focus presenter Helen Pidd goes out on the road – to Birmingham, Stalybridge and Clacton – to chart Nigel Farage’s bid to transform Reform UK into a modern, professional political party

The G20? Cop29? Totally pointless, said the Tory leader. World leaders getting up themselves and a load of virtue-signalling

 

Editorial: Tory complaints about Labour’s choices ring hollow when they still deny their culpability for the whole budget mess

Exclusive: Government looks at changing rules so older farmers do not have to live for seven years after making a gift to avoid the tax

 

People are being threatened and punished at the hint of cross-party cooperation. It’s control freakery we cannot afford, says Neal Lawson of the cross-party campaign organisation Compass

 

 

Debt interest payments push public finances deeper into the red in fresh blow to Rachel Reeves

 

 

Former trade union activist and key figure of Tony Blair’s New Labour project has died at care home surrounded by family

Thousands of farmers descended on Westminster this week, to protest against changes made in last month’s budget over inheritance tax. The government claim that this will affect a small minority of farms. But with slim profits and many farmers sa ...

Consultation launched on increasing socially rented housing stock by limiting criteria allowing tenants to buy

Angela Rayner hands Andy Burghart his arse on a plate at PMQs, but sounds unconvincing on farmers tax row

 

Keith Rollinson died in February after being attacked by a drunk 15-year-old he had refused to let on his bus