Head of food retailer says he wants ministers to focus on planning reform and fixing Britain’s productivity problems ...

The cases of Valdo Calocane, who stabbed to death three people in Nottingham in 2023, and Axel Rudakubana, who knifed three children to death and injured many more in Southport in 2024, have generated ...

Martin Ivens is the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. Previously, he was editor of the Sunday Times of London and its ...

Today’s growth figures will have elicited a sigh of relief across the government. A meagre 0.1 per cent uptick is certainly ...

At the height of stagflation in 1974 and 1975, the UK economy contracted by 2.5% and 1.5% a year respectively. While the Bank of England lowering its growth forecast to 0.75% is indicative of a ...

Britain escaped recession by the skin of its teeth in the dying months of 2024, as the economy eked out growth of 0.1pc in ...

S ir Keir Starmer KC is among the most successful British politicians of the past half-century. In just four years, Sir Keir ...

Sir Keir Starmer has become the first sitting UK prime minister to publicly take an HIV test to reduce stigma around Aids and encourage more people to get tested. There are historical parallels. In ...

ANALYSIS: Labour’s hardline stance on immigration has been widely criticised, including by some people who you might presume ...

Sir Keir Starmer insisted he would “always put our national interest first” in response to Donald Trump's steel tariffs. The ...

It was reported last week that Defra minister Daniel Zeichner told a rural conference that farmers are ‘not high on the ...