The Latest Breaking News from Whitehall

Further benefits cuts planned as Rachel Reeves forced to find extra £1.6bn

Chancellor risks wrath of Labour backbenchers with spring statement set to confirm deeper cuts

The Guardian - UK · Mar 25, 2025

Reeves to put £2bn into affordable housing to ‘sweeten the pill’ of cuts

Chancellor will announce plans to fund 18,000 social homes before fraught spring statement on Wednesday

The Guardian - UK · Mar 25, 2025

What is Dominic Cummings doing now, as he breaks silence following dinner with Nigel Farage?

The former adviser speaks out for the first time since having secret dinner with Reform Party leader Nigel Farage

Evening Standard · Mar 24, 2025

Thousands of jobs at risk in shake-up of English councils, Unison warns

Union says it will be a ‘travesty if crucial public services are shut down’ in mergers of some county and district bodies

The Guardian - UK · Mar 20, 2025

Chancellor Rachel Reeves prepares huge spending cuts to prevent tax hikes as spring statement looms

Whitehall budgets could be slashed by billions of pounds more than previously expected in a blow to public services

Evening Standard · Mar 20, 2025

Ambassadors to be judged on ability to generate trade for UK, says Lammy

Foreign Secretary David Lammy will set out a series of measures aimed at helping businesses boost international trade.

Evening Standard · Mar 20, 2025

Rachel Reeves to announce biggest spending cuts 'since austerity'

Rachel Reeves is set to unveil the biggest spending cuts "since austerity" in next week's Spring Statement ...

The National (Scotland) · Mar 19, 2025

Reeves to reveal biggest UK spending cuts since austerity in spring statement

Labour MPs uneasy as chancellor prepares even deeper reductions that economists say will harm key services

The Guardian - UK · Mar 19, 2025

Thousands of Whitehall ‘credit cards’ to be suspended in spending crackdown

Minister Pat McFadden says at least half will be permanently cancelled in effort to reduce wasteful purchases

The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2025

It is mission critical that Labour repairs the contract between citizen and state

Smarter, more productive, government will require more than yet another bonfire of the quangos

The Guardian - UK · Mar 16, 2025