A Cabinet minister has admitted tax rises cannot be ruled out as he warned of the “financial cost” of the government’s ...

Keir Starmer dramatically abandoned his flagship welfare reforms to avoid a historic defeat, leaving the UK prime minister’s authority badly damaged and his government facing a widening fiscal hole to ...

Despite a humiliating eleventh hour welfare u-turn, Starmer saw his biggest backbench rebellion yet and Reeves now faces a ...

Pat McFadden says the government will still keep its promise to not raise income tax, VAT or National Insurance.

However, the government has also promised to raise basic universal credit, at a cost of £1.8bn, Waters adds. This potentially ...