We’ve already written in detail about the planned Labour Group budget for 2025/26. This was head-nodded through by Cabinet with little internal scrutiny on Monday evening.

The budget was passed at a meeting of full council with 24 votes in favour and 14 votes against as well as one abstention ...

National museums such as the British Museum will have their budgets increased by 5% under plans announced by Lisa Nandy on Thursday (Yui Mok/PA) The announcement follows Labour’s manifesto pledge last ...

State pensioners will see most of their triple lock increase wiped out, pushing thousands past "the point of poverty" ...

More than £8,000 a year is being spent by a council on taxis to take a 13-year-old to school after she was forced out of private education by Labour’s VAT raid. Ava Lambert’s parents could no ...

DULUTH — Brandon Parker remained seated and silent as those around him stood to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of last week’s City Council meeting. But Parker rose to speak his ...

Thousands of retirees in the poorest areas of the country could see 85% of their state pension uplift eaten up by soaring ...

The triple lock was introduced in 2010 and ensures the state pension rises each year in line with either inflation, wage growth or 2.5pc. This year the uptick follows the 4.1pc wage growth. It means ...

Greenfield sites will likely feature in proposals for a host of new towns to be built across England, a minister has said.

LABOUR pledged today to pour more money and arms into the Ukraine conflict even as the prospect of peace emerged this week. Turning his back on US President Donald Trump’s negotiations, Prime Minister ...

But Labour opposition ... a low council tax rise of 1.99 per cent, which is below inflation - just 7p extra a week for the vast majority of residents in the borough. This yet again honours the ...

Concerns have been raised that ministers may abandon a popular pledge to prioritise British-grown food in schools and hospitals as part of government spending cuts. Whitehall insiders have admitted to ...