Exclusive: Maximum possible 4.99% rises expected in April while PM plans pre-election cuts to income tax How a decade of austerity has squeezed council budgets ‘I’m scared for the city’: Nottingham faces council cuts Households across England are facing an inflation-busting £2bn council tax raid this spring despite Rishi Sunak’s […]
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Exclusive: Business secretary who has told party rebels to stop ‘stirring’ and back PM is in group along with Michael Gove Kemi Badenoch is a member of a Conservative WhatsApp group called “Evil Plotters” despite telling party rebels to “stop messing around” and get behind Rishi Sunak, the Guardian can […]
Lloyd Austin says president ‘will not tolerate attacks on US forces’, but Qatar warns that reprisal attacks could undermine Israel hostage talks See all our Middle East coverage US defense secretary Lloyd Austin has vowed to take “all necessary actions” to defend US troops after Iran-backed militants killed three US […]
Conservative opposition in the House of Lords could prolong wrangling over bill’s implementation Rishi Sunak’s troubled Rwanda deportation plan has been condemned by Conservative peers, historians and bishops in an indication that the House of Lords could demand changes that might delay its implementation. Ken Clarke, the Conservative former chancellor […]
Tehran-linked drug dealer, a Canadian Hells Angel member and another man charged with plotting Iranian defector’s killing The US has charged an Iranian drug trafficker with intelligence ties to Tehran, a Canadian Hells Angel and another Canadian man in an alleged plot to carry out assassinations in the US. According […]
Iranian backed militia took credit for attack that injured 34 troops and killed first US soldiers in battle since start of the Gaza conflict The spectre of a direct US-Iranian military conflict drew closer on Sunday when the US president Joe Biden announced three US servicemen have been killed and […]
Exclusive: New claims come on 25th anniversary of death of Jay Abatan, who was assaulted in Brighton in 1999 Officers in a police force that bungled the investigation into a suspected racist killing, allegedly went on holiday, dined and partied with suspects arrested over the attack, the Guardian has learned. […]
Exclusive: Labour ‘under no illusions’ about mess party stands to inherit, as council leaders warn more will go bust next year What are the cost pressures facing English councils? ‘Stuck without it’: Woking elderly residents face losing key transport Barnet council’s ‘Graph of Doom’ now looks prophetic Angela Rayner has […]
Committee calls on government to heed widespread concern and consider a more nuanced inspection system The government should stop the use of single-word judgments such as “inadequate” or “outstanding” in Ofsted’s headline grades of schools in England, a committee of MPs has urged. MPs on the education committee said relations […]
Draft of former speaker’s final speech said prime ministers should not give peerages to friends or people with ‘fat bank accounts’ Betty Boothroyd wanted to use her valedictory speech in the House of Lords to criticise prime ministers for giving too many peerages to friends and those with “fat bank […]