The Latest Breaking News from Mel Stride

It’s a mistake to think that, when it comes to the UK economy, the Conservatives have always been seen by British voters as a safer pair of hands than Labour. But, notwithstanding the damaging austerity imposed on the country by David Cameron’s chancellor, George Osborne, it was, by and large,…

For some reason, Stride used his first keynote speech as shadow chancellor to discuss the abject failure of his party

Shadow chancellor Mel Stride vowed the Tories would ‘never again’ make offers they cannot afford as he warned his party ‘needs to shine the light of truth on what Reform is all about’

NIGEL Farage knows how to craft a moment.

He is calling for the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap and restoring the winter fuel payment to all pensioners

The Government’s child poverty strategy, which was due to be published in the spring, is now set to come out in the autumn.

Downing Street unable to say how many more pensioners would receive winter fuel payments or when changes would come in

Michael Gove, Simon Hart and Alister Jack have all been handed peerages – but who else made the cut?

Parliament is being recalled on Saturday to vote on emergency legislation that will bring British Steel under government control