The Latest Breaking News from Whitehall

COMMENT: Party strategists are busy working out how to escape the chancellor’s doom loop of tax rises – and to crush damaging speculation about her boss’s ability to lead his party into the next general election. But the race to replace the PM may already have begun, says Andrew Grice

Giving away the Indian Ocean archipelago to the east African nation will cost £35 billion, Whitehall estimates suggest

First lady is facing increased scrutiny as political experts suggest she is behind US president’s recent volte-faces on Gaza and Putin

Exclusive: The Guardian has been told that discussions about increases include a near-certain gambling levy

The prisons crisis is symptomatic of a dysfunctional system that is defeating these ministers as badly as those before them, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

First female head of MI5 seen as a Whitehall street fighter whose most controversial role was countering ‘subversion’

Whitehall officials have allegedly been flagging social media accounts to Big Tech firms which criticise immigration

Minister says programme will help ensure Whitehall has ‘broadest range of talent and truly reflects the country’

Civil service internships will be given out based on applicants’ parents’ jobs when they were 14

‘We need to get more working-class young people into the Civil Service so it harnesses the broadest range of talent and truly reflects the country’

Chancellor under pressure to recruit new experts as John Van Reenen and Anna Valero return to academia