John Swinney has insisted the prospect of the private sector investing billions to secure a low-carbon future for the Grangemouth industrial cluster is realistic. The First Minister said he is ...

Vladimir Putin’s resistance to accepting am immediate ceasefire without conditions is “disappointing” and Ukraine has Britain’s “unwavering support”, Downing Street has said amid ongoing diplomatic ...

The projections were published by the Department for Work and Pensions as part of the Keep Britain Working independent review.

The Battle of Britain March was among the tunes played on the forecourt of Buckingham Palace in tribute to Group Captain Hemingway who died ...

A migrant has died after being pulled from the water while trying to cross the English Channel, the French coastguard said. A rescue operation was launched after reports that a group of people tried ...

The Home Secretary has been urged to review firearms regulations after Nicholas Prosper was able to buy a deadly weapon using ...

Sir Keir Starmer has mocked Nigel Farage’s Downing Street ambitions by claiming the Reform UK leader struggles to lead a party that “fits in the back of a taxi”.

In the autumn budget, Rachel Reeves decided not to extend the freeze on the thresholds at which people start to pay different rates of income tax.

Insolvency at the University of Dundee is a “real possibility”, MSPs have been told, as the new principal admitted “misleading” information had been given about its finances. Professor Shane O’Neill, ...

Santander is closing more than a fifth of its high street branches under a major overhaul of its network in the UK, in a move that puts around 750 jobs under threat.

Sir Keir Starmer has been directly challenged by Labour veteran Diane Abbott over the Government’s cuts to welfare, with the Mother of the House telling him there was “nothing moral” about the plan.