New tax on £2m homes; mileage charge for electric vehicles; national insurance on salary sacrifice pension contributions above £2,000; changes to Isa rules Rachel Reeves has announced tax rises ...

It means the current income tax bands will stay as they are until at least April 2031, for taxpayers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The Reform UK leader has faced backlash after allegations emerged that he engaged in alleged incidents of deeply offensive behaviour as a teenager.

Several people have been arrested after farmers drove tractors into central London for a Budget day protest, despite police restrictions. Reform UK said it would pay for the defence of farmers ...

Palestine Action’s co-founder Huda Ammori is taking legal action against the Home Office over the decision to ban the direct action group.

The policy would raise an estimated £4.7 billion in 2029/30 and £2.6 billion in 2030/31, an Office for Budget Responsibility document said.

A man in his 20s from West Oxfordshire has died at the scene of a crash near Burford, the Gloucestershire Constabulary has said.

The confirmation the cap will be scrapped was immediately welcomed by organisations which have long campaigned for it to go.

Kemi Badenoch claimed the Prime Minister is considering bringing back Ms Rayner because he is ‘desperate to shore up his crumbling leadership’.

The OBR said the freeze in tax thresholds would result in 780,000 more basic-rate, 920,000 more higher-rate and 4,000 more additional-rate income tax payers in 2029/30, and estimated it will raise ...

A fire spread across multiple high-rise apartment buildings in a Hong Kong housing complex on Wednesday, killing 13 people and leaving others trapped inside, authorities said.

It came as the UK’s official forecaster also reported that economic growth will be weaker than expected from 2026.