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Successive prime ministers have lacked the courage to end this vanity project. Is Rishi Sunak any different, asks Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Successful bids for levelling up money will be revealed alongside the autumn statement on Thursday, but scepticism about the policy is high in the northern town

The accusations pile more pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak whose judgment has been questioned

Exclusive: Some civil servants may have still been traumatised by his previous stint there, sources say

Services from passports to pensions could be affected as 100,000 PCS union members to join nurses in wave of stoppages

Complaint, which prosecutor has yet to accept, raises risk of Sanaa Seif’s detention during Cop27

Michael Gove has announced a major expansion of the power the government has

Exclusive: MoD official says minister subjected them to campaign of bullying when he was defence secretary

A £250 million scheme to create a successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia has been scrapped as part of a squeeze on government spending. The national flagship plan was sunk by Rishi Sunak’s administration as Whitehall braced for cuts in the November 17 autumn statement by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt. The…