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Budgets resemble the old French saying about taxation — the aim is to produce the maximum amount of fiscal feathers from the goose with the minimum amount of hissing. However, hissing is what a disgruntled and reactive Conservative party does best right now and the public-finance goose is a skinny,…

The monarch carried out the official duty at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday morning

Jeremy Hunt to announce doubling of funding for research at the Alan Turing Institute

Health spending in England to suffer 1.2% cut, worth £2bn, despite extra costs, thinktank’s analysis finds

Editorial: Instead of sticking to arbitrary limits, politicians should be able to make the case for spending on urgent social repair

Last month we celebrated the 40th anniversary of London Fashion Week. With a technical recession just declared, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt may have had other things on his mind — but he should take notice, and not just for style tips.

Critics say the surprise policy in last spring budget’s was ill-thought-out, prompting higher prices and fewer nurseries

Cast your mind back – if you can – to September 1978. Jim Callaghan announced he would not call an early election (which he might have won), Pope John Paul I died after 33 days of papacy and the Commodores were number one with their hit, 'Three Times A Lady".

Free childcare plan ‘not even close to being workable’ early years leaders warn