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Brexit and the question of Ireland
Jeremy Corbyn made a rare PMQs foray into Brexit focusing in his first question on Ireland.
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What did chancellor Philip Hammond leave out of his Budget speech today?
Jeremy Corbyn made a rare PMQs foray into Brexit focusing in his first question on Ireland.
New MPs Anna McMorrin and Bim Afolami discuss the forthcoming budget, Brexit and how they see politics.
Our Economics Correspondent Helia Ebrahimi has gone to one of the areas of lowest productivity in the UK to examine what’s going on.
Doctors leaders’ have warned the government that as winter approaches, the NHS is facing unprecedented pressures. The Royal College of GPs has written to the Chancellor Philip Hammond ahead of tomorrow’s budget, adding to the growing clamour within the NHS for a significant increase in funding. Earlier this month, NHS England’s Chief Executive Simon Stevens…
Jeremy Corbyn said people on the NLW could lose out by £5,000 by 2020. But his claims are based on shaky assumptions.
In recent years the Sunday before a Budget has given the chancellor a day to visit TV studios giving gentle hints about who is about to benefit from his generosity with our money. Instead, Philip Hammond found himself today accused of denying that there are any unemployed people. To be fair to him, he didn’t…
Should polystyrene takeaway boxes and other single-use plastic packaging be taxed? Charging people for using plastic bags has already dramatically slashed the number of those we throw away. In Wednesday’s budget the government says it will gather evidence on how more taxes could further reduce the amount we waste – saying we could fill a thousand…
Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May clash over the government’s record on public spending. FactCheck referees.
Transcripts from the House of Commons can be quietly edited if politicians’ claims are proved wrong. But the public rarely hears an apology. Here are ten incorrect claims we discovered which were made by government ministers. They were all corrected afterwards – but often not for weeks.
Hundreds of thousands of people have had their travel plans thrown into chaos after the collapse of the budget airline Monarch. On top of around 110,000 customers currently overseas, three quarters of a million people with future bookings will now be left scrambling for alternative flights. And in the last few minutes, the administrators said…
The Civil Aviation Authority has warned Ryanair that it could face legal action for misleading passengers about their rights. The regulator has given the budget airline a deadline of 5pm tomorrow to let passengers know about the possibility of being re-routed on another airline if their flight is cancelled. Up to 400,000 people have been…
Can it be a new partnership? In her speech in Italy, Theresa May set out how the government wants to leave the EU. She offered new ways to develop the UK’s relationship with Europe, among them a two-year transition period, a “creative” approach to trade, and payments into the EU budget until 2021. Will it be…
She wants a two(ish)-year “implementation period” The Prime Minister had already said she wanted some kind of transitional arrangement to continue after the current date when Britain is set to leave the EU – 29 March 2019. But this is the first time she has mentioned a specific timetable. Mrs May says she wants an…
We’ve FactChecked this to death – suffice to say that Britain does not in fact spend anything like £350m a week on EU membership fees.