2+ hour, 9+ min ago   (810+ words) Andy Burnham needs a Labour victory in the upcoming Holborn and St Pancras by-election if he wants to dispel the notion the new Prime Minister is anti-London. Why? Let’s look at benefits. The claimant count rate in Mr Burnham’s Makerfield…...

2+ hour, 23+ min ago   (609+ words) TikTok users are the most likely people on social media to overestimate the true extent of crime in London, according to a new study. The finding comes in research by the Policy Institute at King’s College London (KCL), entitled “London…...

5+ hour, 44+ min ago   (717+ words) Leaders of the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Féin are expected to meet in Cardiff to sign an agreement aimed at putting pressure on Downing Street to hold referendums on independence. The meeting on Monday will involve the first ministers…...

8+ hour, 28+ min ago   (677+ words) More than 800 hospitality businesses have written to the Prime Minister urging him to set out how he will introduce a lower rate of VAT. The VAT’s The problem campaign has called for the hospitality VAT rate to be reduced from…...

8+ hour, 28+ min ago   (702+ words) Less than a third of working adults feel that how much a firm pays into their pension would be one of three most important benefits they would weigh up when considering whether to accept a job, according to Which?. Only…...

8+ hour, 28+ min ago   (599+ words) Peers are to debate calls for a cap on political donations amid concern from campaigners over two £36 million donations from crypto-billionaires to Reform UK. The donations from Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo, disclosed over the weekend, together amount to three…...

9+ hour, 37+ min ago   (715+ words) US President Donald Trump has downplayed the risks of AI, saying “negative forces” were “bringing up things that won’t happen”, after calls by industry bosses to slow down development. Anthropic boss Dario Amodei said he was concerned that since this…...

12+ hour, 13+ min ago   (881+ words) The First Ministers of the UK’s devolved nations will sign a landmark agreement on Monday aimed at putting pressure on Downing Street to hold referendums on independence. SNP leader John Swinney, Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth and Sinn Féin…...

12+ hour, 24+ min ago   (991+ words) Donald Trump made a surprise announcement that he was removing US tariffs on Irish whiskey as he brought his two-day visit to Ireland to a close. Crowds cheered the US President as he made the announcement on the 18th green during…...

12+ hour, 44+ min ago   (535+ words) George Osborne has called for Britain to rejoin the EU customs union, claiming that the UK economy has “gone off a cliff” since Brexit. The former chancellor said that rejoining the customs union would be the fastest route to recovery,…...