4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (198+ words) Ministers insist local leaders “won’t want to price themselves out of the market,” but that is precisely the kind of vague reassurance that has done little to calm an industry already reeling from two years of Labour tax raids. The…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (579+ words) Markets Deliver Their Verdict on Healey's Fiscal Credibility as Britain Pays Highest Borrowing Rate Since 1998 conservativepost.co.uk Investors have just handed John Healey the most expensive lesson in fiscal credibility any Chancellor has received since Britain started keeping proper…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (155+ words) The exercise, first reported by The Telegraph, is intended to test how effectively veterans can be identified, summoned, and re-equipped in the event of a crisis, though the precise numbers involved are still being worked out. Ms Sandher-Jones, herself a…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (996+ words) It marks the first annual decline recorded by the index since November 2023. Prices also slipped by 0.2 per cent during August itself, following a 0.1 per cent fall in July, despite economists having expected a modest increase. Perhaps more concerning than the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1536+ words) Government borrowing costs surged last week, with the yield on benchmark 10-year gilts touching 5.294 per cent on Wednesday, its highest level since August 2007. Britain has been caught up in a wider international bond sell-off, intensified by renewed conflict in the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (526+ words) It marks the sharpest one-day move in the UK’s borrowing costs since May, and comes just weeks before Chancellor John Healey is due to deliver a Budget that markets are already treating with deep suspicion. While ministers will be tempted…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (543+ words) conservativepost.co.uk The Labour government is preparing to dispatch HMRC valuation inspectors to private homes as part of the rollout of the so-called “mansion tax,” with owners facing criminal penalties simply for refusing entry, according to reporting first published…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (265+ words) As for his grandfather, Lord Soames was direct: while he could not say precisely what Churchill would think today, given he “has been dead for more than 60 years,” he was confident that the wartime prime minister, a lifelong cigar devotee,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (717+ words) His comments were made in an interview with The Telegraph, published on Friday, August 21, in which he expressed disappointment with Labour’s performance in government and criticised its approach to taxation and business. Mr Caudwell had supported Sir Keir after being…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (351+ words) Exemptions are built into the statute for health, professional, artistic, or weather-related reasons, as well as for face coverings worn in places of worship, diplomatic premises, and aboard aircraft. The bill was originally introduced by Chega, Portugal’s “hard-right” party led…...