Hundreds of new homes from Help to Buy: at what cost?
It’s the centrepiece of the government’s plans to get the economy going after three years of meagre growth.
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The government’s promising it’s cracking down on tax avoiders. Are their claims avoidance or evasion? FactCheck finds out.
The economy may be struggling, but the stock market is booming. Should we be throwing our hats in the air or worrying about a crash?
The International Monetary Fund says the government should be doing more to speed up recovery in a critical assessment of the state of the British economy.
Up to a thousand lawyers are expected to stage a protest against planned cuts in criminal legal aid at Parliament today.
Nick Clegg and David Cameron vow the coalition will remain united until the 2015 general election – as the deputy prime minister attacks Tory backbenchers for “game-playing”.
MPs are falling over themselves to talk tough on tax. But with Google claiming tax avoidance is merely capitalism in action, lawmakers are now coming under scrutiny in the Great British tax debate.
It’s the centrepiece of the government’s plans to get the economy going after three years of meagre growth.
Households are facing a continued squeeze on their spending power after a leading forecaster warned that high inflation is here to stay.
Former British helicopter pilot Major Timothy Peake becomes the UK’s first home-grown astronaut after being selected as one of six candidates to join the International Space Station.
The HS2 high-speed rail project has an estimated £3.3bn funding gap which the government has yet to decide how to fill, a report from a Whitehall spending watchdog says today.
The French president marks a year in office with a rare press conference. But with France entering recession and his popularity at an all-time low, it may not be the happiest of anniversaries.
Why are people in this country steeped in the playground “Cry baby Bunting” mentality? In my book, it’s always OK for anyone, male or female, to cry.
With no mention of minimum pricing for alcohol and cigarettes in the Queen’s speech, are politicians not thinking ahead or do they realise exactly what they’re doing?
A big intervention from one of the former heavyweights of the Thatcher era. But is Nigel Lawson right that EU membership is a burden for UK businesses?
Over a quarter of a million mortgage holders have no plan for paying off their interest-only loan, and the regulator warns such borrowers not to bury their head in the sand.