The Latest Breaking News from Whitehall

New business rates regime that is poised to hit pubs and hotels is latest example of hasty decision-making

More than £3bn that could have been used for UK patients will go to big pharma for its branded products, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Leading barrister and pressure groups say move would lead to more unfairness for Black, Asian and minority ethnic defendants

Senior lawyers criticise justice secretary’s radical plan for England and Wales, saying it could ‘destroy justice as we know it’

Trump says the countries are ‘very close’ to a peace deal as Russian strikes target Zaporizhzhia

For generations, medicine treated the heart and brain as separate domains. However, a new study suggests the two are more closely connected than we thought, especially as we age.

There is increasingly bad blood between ministers and civil servants in the UK government. The trend has been apparent for at least a decade, with the mood between officials and ministers darkening during the Conservative administrations of Theresa May and Boris Johnson, fuelled by conflict over Brexit.

Former NI secretary Lord Paul Murphy said that people ‘didn’t think enough’ about the consequences for Northern Ireland when they voted for Brexit.

Phil Brickell will call for Whitehall clarity over ministers’ efforts to tackle financial secrecy in the British Overseas Territories.