The cost of living crisis means almost 60% of shoppers expect to cut back in retail’s ‘golden quarter’ British shoppers are expected to spend £4.4bn less on non-essentials – a fall of 22% – in the run-up to Christmas as a surge in the cost of living puts a squeeze […]
Kwasi Kwarteng to bring forward fiscal statement to later this month amid disquiet in party over spending cuts hitting poorest Conservative MPs are plotting to avert a squeeze on welfare after Liz Truss was forced into two humiliating U-turns on plans to abolish the top rate of income tax and […]
Far-right president forces second round after closely trailing Lula, disappointing those who had hoped to turn a page on his influence Tears filled Beatriz Simões’s eyes as she digested Jair Bolsonaro’s startlingly strong performance in Sunday’s Brazilian election. Hours earlier the 34-year-old publicist had been convinced a hope-filled dawn was […]
Drinks reception with wealthy Tory donors took place on same day the chancellor delivered mini-budget Pressure is growing on the Tory party to provide a full list of attendees at a private champagne reception attended by the chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, hours after he delivered his mini-budget. Anneliese Dodds, the Labour […]
Party conference overshadowed by fears that refusing to do a U-turn on tax and spending cuts will kill off election chances Liz Truss is struggling to persuade Conservative MPs to back her controversial mini-budget, with some even threatening all-out rebellion amid fears that they will once again become known as […]
Former CIA director and retired army general says Moscow’s leader is ‘desperate’ and ‘battlefield reality he faces is irreversible’ The US and its allies would destroy Russia’s troops and equipment in Ukraine – as well as sink its Black Sea fleet – if Russian president Vladimir Putin uses nuclear weapons […]
Latest updates: leftwing former president fails to secure majority of first-round votes ‘We want no more hatred’: leftwing ex-president Lula on verge of comeback Live results tracker A Lula victory would represent the latest in a series of triumphs for a resurgent Latin American left, following the election of leftist […]
Exclusive: Westminster gave exemption for Hinduja brothers’ Old War Office development in return for £10m payment The UK’s two richest people have been allowed to avoid planning rules that should have required them to build 98 affordable flats for key workers and low-income workers at their new £1.2bn luxury development […]
Prime minister reportedly raised objections to him going during personal audience at Buckingham Palace King Charles III has reportedly abandoned plans to attend and deliver a speech at the Cop27 climate change summit on the advice of Liz Truss. The monarch, a veteran campaigner on environmental issues, had been invited […]
Conservative MPs urge Liz Truss’s removal from No 10 after poll reveals British public’s fury over tax plans Three-quarters of UK voters, including a staggering 71% of those who backed the Conservatives at the last general election, believe the prime minister, Liz Truss, and the chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, have “lost […]