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UK politics

  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    UK Government
    British Steel crisis spurs greater scrutiny of Chinese investment in UK

    Ministers urged to review Beijing’s role in critical national infrastructure and supply chains

    Engineering teams use the world’s largest crane - Big Carl - to lift a 245-tonne steel dome onto Hinkley Point C’s first reactor building, at the nuclear power station construction site in Bridgwater, Somerset
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Birmingham
    Birmingham bin strike to continue after workers reject pay deal

    Industrial action has led to rubbish piling up across UK’s second city

    Birmingham Bin Strike
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Scottish National party
    SNP brings forward government programme due to Trump turmoil

    Scottish first minister John Swinney says move will allow for year of ‘delivery’ ahead of Holyrood elections

    John Swinney
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Craig Williams
    Former Tory MP Craig Williams charged over election betting scandal

    Total of 15 people face charges after Gambling Commission probe

    Craig Williams
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Inside Politics
    In defence of Milton Keynes

    It is not perfect, but city’s infrastructure-led development and long-term planning may hold key to Labour’s new towns agenda

    Keir Starmer visits Newport Pagnell, wearing a hi-vis jacket
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    EU defence
    UK and EU close ranks on defence amid Trump turmoil

    British PM next month will host first summit with bloc’s leaders since Brexit

    Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission president, with UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Property sector
    Only 3% of fines collected over non-disclosure of UK property

    Transparency campaigners say government must deal with failure to enforce penalties on offshore companies

    A residential mansion block in the Kensington and Chelsea district of London
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    UK trade
    UK suspends import tariffs to ease strain for British businesses

    Levies cut on 89 products to support domestic companies against Trump’s trade war

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    ExplainerBritish Steel Ltd
    Why did the UK rush to save British Steel and what happens next?

    Government now has tricky task of running a costly and complex industrial operation

    A large white question mark is imposed over a blue-tinted image of an industrial facility
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    National Health Service
    England’s busiest A&E department grapples with soaring demand for elderly care

    A Leicester hospital is trialling a fresh approach to caring for older patients as demographic shifts loom

  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    UK universities
    Share of domestic postgraduate researchers hits record low in England

    Cuts to PhD funding have caused UK student intake to shrink, data shows

    a researcher at Edinburgh University
  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    British Steel nationalisation is ‘likely option’, says business secretary

    MPs vote in favour of bill giving the government powers to seize control of British Steel

    The British Steel Scunthorpe site
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    Starmer vows to pass emergency law ‘in one day’ to save British Steel’s Scunthorpe site

    Prime minister announces recall of parliament as government races to prevent closure of UK’s last two blast furnaces

    British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    News in-depthUK economy
    Reeves looks to nurture ‘green shoots’ of UK economic growth

    Chancellor welcomes striking official data as allies set out ‘four-pronged response’ to Trump tariffs

    Rachel Reeves
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    UK honours system
    Jeremy Hunt receives knighthood in Sunak’s resignation honours

    Former UK Conservative chancellor dealt with fallout of Liz Truss’s mini-Budget

    Jeremy Hunt
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    Political Fix podcast44 min listen
    Markets or Trump: who’s in charge?

    Plus: a stocktake of the political year so far

  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Theresa May: ‘Keep calm and keep talking to Trump’

    The former UK prime minister on tariffs, Boris Johnson’s manoeuvring — and the time the president held her hand

    A smiling woman in late middle age, with short grey hair, wearing a vibrant red and green shirt, in front of a wall of pictures
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    Pensions
    Two council pension ‘pools’ forced to merge as UK ratchets up overhaul

    Industry says reforms have been rushed and warns of cost pressures

    People walk past the main entrance to HM Treasury in Westminster, London
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Labour’s trade and tariff balancing act

    Plus, UK tries to negotiate Trump’s minimum rate and broader US economic deal but none of this looks easy

    Rachel Reeves at RAF Northolt in London
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    Reform party UK
    Reform-linked think-tank secures funding pledges worth £1mn

    Resolute 1850 begins hiring staff as Nigel Farage’s party seeks to professionalise and strengthen its platform

    Montage shows a page from the Resolute 1850 presentation with a picture of Reform leader Nigel Farage
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    Renewable energy
    North Sea row highlights wind farms’ growing ‘wake effect’ problem

    Turbine operators worry new neighbours are slowing down their wind

    Statoil’s Dudgeon offshore wind farm near Great Yarmouth, Britain
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    Peter Kosminsky
    The UK must protect its drama sector

    Major streamers such as Netflix should pay a levy to fund uniquely British television

    Claire Foy and Damian Lewis star in ‘Wolf Hall’
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Birmingham
    Birmingham’s bin worker strike highlights gap between rich and poor

    Wealthy residents of UK’s second city can afford private rubbish collection as deprived areas watch waste pile up

    Refuse bags are piled up in the inner Sparkhill area of Birmingham
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    The State of Britain
    Cutting NHS costs is not cheap Premium content

    Health experts predict redundancies across the health service will cost £1bn

    An ambulance outside a hospital
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    UK honours system
    Michael Gove to receive peerage in Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours

    Former housing secretary is one of seven set to enter House of Lords

    Michael Gove
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