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All the latest news and updates from the British Government, which is based at 10 Downing Street, covering everything from budget statements, to PMQ's and election updates, The current leader of His Majesty's Government is Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

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Most expensive pints in UK revealed after cost hikes push average price over £5

Channel: Politics Politics 19 hours ago By Craig Munro

Here’s what could be on the way in Rachel Reeves’ spring statement this week

Channel: Politics Politics 15 hours ago By Craig Munro
Resident Douglas Debnam on Whitebarns Lane in the village of Furneaux Phelham in Hertfordshire. Photo released October 29 2024. Furious villagers embroiled in Britain's longest running pothole row have said they will refuse to pay nearly ??100k out of their own pockets to fix the road to their homes. Locals of Whitebarns Lane, in Furneux Pelham, Herts, are locked in a bitter dispute as the lane links the main road through to village to their cul-de-sac. Hertfordshire County Council said that Whitebarns Lane has always been a public footpath and not a road - meaning it cannot be repaired at public expense. However angry villagers say the lane is covered with 32 potholes and a dispute over the road surface dates back to 1960s.

Councils handed £1,600,000,000 to fix pothole-blighted roads - but there's a catch

Channel: Politics Politics 21 hours ago By Craig Munro

'The government should be ashamed of the £5,000,000,000 disability cuts - it is barbaric'

Channel: UK UK 4 days ago By Liam Coleman
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Thomas Krych/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock (15189654dg) Secretary of State for Work and Pensions LIZ KENDALL, leaves Downing Street after a weekly Cabinet Meeting. Cabinet Meeting In Downing Street, London, England, United Kingdom - 11 Mar 2025

People who don't hit new Pip threshold 'to be more than £4,000 a year worse off'

Channel: Politics Politics 6 days ago By Craig Munro
? Joel Goodman - 07973 332324 - all rights reserved . 15/02/2024. Staffordshire, UK . The home of ERICA CROMPTON (43) , pictured in the upstairs guest suite, and her partner Paul Nicholls (42), in Silverdale . Photo credit : Joel Goodman

Cutting my disability benefits won't magically make me able to work full-time

Channel: UK UK 6 days ago By Erica Crompton

Outrageous things that have been bought on civil service credit cards

Channel: Politics Politics 7 days ago By Craig Munro
Play Video Screen grab of Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall making a statement on welfare reform in the House of Commons, London. Picture date: Tuesday March 18, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Benefits. Photo credit should read: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA Wire

Full list of PIP disability benefit changes after Government unveils welfare reforms

Channel: Politics Politics 6 days ago By Craig Munro
The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) or Chagos Islands (formerly the Oil Islands) is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom situated in the Indian Ocean, halfway between Africa and Indonesia. The territory comprises a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 individual islands, situated some 500 kilometers (310 mi) due south of the Maldives archipelago. The largest island is Diego Garcia (area 44 km squared), the site of a joint military facility of the United Kingdom and the United States. Following the eviction of the native population (Chagossians) in the 1960s, the only inhabitants are US and British military personnel and associated contractors, who collectively number around 4,000 (2004 figures). (Photo by: Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

People on UK 'paradise' islands unite to block deal handing them to Mauritius

Channel: Politics Politics March 17, 2025 By Craig Munro
Sarah Owen

Bereavement leave for miscarriage will 'acknowledge the pain' of loss

Channel: Politics Politics March 14, 2025 By Craig Munro
Play Video Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a Q&A session after delivering a speech where he announced NHS England will be abolished to "cut bureaucracy" and bring management of the health service "back into democratic control" during a visit to Reckitt Benckiser Health Care UK Ltd in Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire. Picture date: Thursday March 13, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Starmer. Photo credit should read: Oli Scarff/PA Wire

Keir Starmer to scrap NHS England and bring it back under government control

Channel: Politics Politics March 13, 2025 By Craig Munro
Young woman with disability with her dog at home

Cuts to disability benefit 'would be catastrophic for people across the country'

Channel: Politics Politics 7 days ago By Craig Munro
Play Video Jess Phillips MP, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Birmingham Yardley, Labour)

Jess Phillips spends five minutes naming women who were killed over the past year

Channel: Politics Politics March 6, 2025 By Craig Munro
A father scolding with his young son in the living room.

Top children's doctor urges smacking to be taken out from 'parenting toolbox'

Channel: Politics Politics March 6, 2025 By Craig Munro
LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 21: Protesters demonstrate at an entrance to Harrods on December 21, 2024 in London, England. Harrods workers, including cleaners, shop floor workers and restaurant staff, are on strike in the run-up to Christmas and Boxing Day. The United Voices of the World (UVW) union say strikes will continue "if the luxury store continues to deny them a Christmas bonus and improved working conditions." (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)

Here's how the changes in the Employment Rights Bill will affect you

Channel: Politics Politics March 4, 2025 By Craig Munro
London As seen from a Thames pleasure boat.

What could the new proposed ban on leasehold flats mean for you?

Channel: Politics Politics March 3, 2025 By Craig Munro
saturday The full extent of Russian interference in British politics

'The British public is in the dark over the threat they face from Russia'

Channel: UK UK March 2, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

Full shopping list of kit armed forces could buy with billions more in funding

Channel: Politics Politics February 28, 2025 By Craig Munro

The eight types of porn which could be banned including choking and age-play

Channel: Politics Politics March 3, 2025 By Josh Milton
Neil Kinnock, Keir Starmer and Donald Trump

Ex-Labour leader issues warning to Starmer and lays into 'Trusk-Putin' alliance

Channel: Politics Politics February 27, 2025 By Craig Munro