POLL: Will Keir Starmer’s ‘one in, one out’ deal stop the boats?
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s new immigration scheme will allows Britain to return small boat arrivals to France, provided the UK accepts the same number of vetted asylum seekers with connections to Britain – but will it work? Dubbed the “one in,…
Jeremy Corbyn at war with Angela Rayner over plans to concrete over Britain’s allotments
Jeremy Corbyn has launched a new fight with the Labour government, accusing Angela Rayner of plotting the destruction of England’s remaining allotments. The former Labour leader condemned the plans, which were announced as part of the government’s ailing housebuilding drive. In a…
Fury over suggestion state pension age could be increased to 80
Suggestions that the state pension age could be increased to 80 have been condemned as “an affront to hard-working citizens”. However, there have been calls for an “honest national conversation” about the growing cost of the state pension and the impact on younger taxpayers….
Disaster for Keir Starmer as tens of thousands demand general election now in new petition
Sir Keir Starmer could be getting hot under the collar as a petition calling for “an immediate General Election” has hit nearly 60,000 signatures. The vote on the UK Government and Parliament’s own petition portal asks for people to sign if they…
Rachel Reeves must hike taxes or break her own rules after ‘blowing budget black hole’
Rachel Reeves will have no choice but to introduce sustained tax hikes to paper over a deepening black hole in Britain’s finances, as her economic plans unravel, a think tank has warned. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (Niesr) said a cocktail of…
If you cash in your pension early can you qualify for council tax benefits later? STEVE WEBB replies
This might sound a bit cheeky… I work 30 hours a week just above minimum wage. I am in the workplace pension so my pension when I retire isn’t much. One of my colleagues cashed theirs in at 55. The…
Nearly 3m savers will be hit by tax bill this year as more fall into the net than previously forecast
Around 120,000 more savers are set to pay tax on their savings interest in the space of a year, new data suggests. A total of 2.64million people will be hit with a savings tax bill in the 2025/26 financial year, a…
Why thousands of people are missing out on NHS jabs for agonising shingles virus
Widespread confusion over who is eligible for the NHS shingles jab means thousands are going unprotected against the agonising infection, a survey has revealed. The poll found one in five over-65s either did not know what shingles was or were unaware the…
Health officials tell UK to brace for surge of virus that is the leading cause of death in newborns
Britons have been warned to brace themselves for an upsurge in cases of a deadly lung infection amid a global rise. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which can be deadly for young children and the elderly, flares up every autumn in…
What a Hiroshima-sized blast would have done to LONDON: Unseen government diagrams imagine carnage if nuke was used on UK in 1945
Imagine a very different end to the Second World War. Instead of the US dropping the world’s first atomic bombs on Japan, it was the Japanese hammering London with the devastating new weapon. In 1945, that is more or less what was considered by…