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  • Saturday, 28 January, 2023
    LexUK energy
    Carbon counter: heat pumps are a greener, costlier option Premium content

    Choice will be determined by the relative competitiveness of gas and power going forward

  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    Inside Politics
    Hunt talks up post-Brexit Britain as he sets scene for Budget

    Global race to lead green transition hinders UK growth plans, as the US and EU step up investment

  • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
    UK government spending
    Nearly £15bn wasted on Covid PPE, says UK spending watchdog

    Health department failed to complete an ‘effective stock count’ of pandemic medical items, report finds

  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    Wagner Group
    UK to probe how Wagner founder hired lawyers despite sanctions

    Treasury to review system that allows sanctioned individuals to apply for licences and legal representation

  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    Conservative Party UK
    Sunak branded ‘hopelessly weak’ after keeping Zahawi in post

    UK prime minister says ‘proper process’ must be followed in probe of Conservative party chair

  • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
    News in-depthNadhim Zahawi
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    The UK Conservative party chair’s tax travails are the latest chapter in a career that has brought him great wealth

  • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
    English devolution
    Hunt examines new fiscal powers for mayors in England

    Ministers want to give local areas greater flexibility over how money is spent

  • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
    UK politics & policy
    UK ministers should end ‘fiction’ of inflation-linked fuel duty rises, say MPs

    Treasury committee argues move would help fiscal watchdog improve forecasting of public finances

  • Monday, 23 January, 2023
    ‘Questions need answering’ over Zahawi tax affairs, says Sunak

    Ethics inquiry opened into Tory party chair while head of BBC faces twin probes into appointment

  • Monday, 23 January, 2023
    Sunak orders ethics adviser to investigate Zahawi’s tax affairs

    UK government also faces crisis over allegations BBC chair Richard Sharp helped Boris Johnson secure a private loan

  • Monday, 23 January, 2023
    The Big Read
    English councils: the budget cuts that are threatening ‘levelling up’

    Whitehall is offering new regeneration funds to local governments but many are struggling with the impact of inflation and the legacy of austerity

  • Monday, 23 January, 2023
    Renewable energy
    CBI chief urges UK to counter US and EU ‘arms race’ on green subsidies

    Tony Danker warns that Britain is falling behind rival nations in investing in green technology

  • Saturday, 21 January, 2023
    Bulb Energy
    UK government set for payback from Bulb sale to Octopus

    Fall in gas prices expected to cut cost of failed energy company’s rescue by up to £840mn

  • Friday, 20 January, 2023
    Rishi Sunak
    Sunak agrees to pay fine over not wearing seatbelt

    Fixed penalty from police caps a difficult week for UK PM amid levelling-up queries and controversy

  • Friday, 20 January, 2023
    Xinjiang
    UK High Court judge finds ‘striking consensus’ of abuses in Xinjiang

    Justice Dove rejects legal challenge brought against UK government over cotton imports but makes damning assessment

  • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
    UK government spending
    Sunak defends UK levelling-up funding despite claims of unfairness

    Allocations from £2bn regional aid programme under fire and PM runs into seatbelt row on trip to promote aid

  • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
    Northern Ireland
    London holds off calling N Irish poll amid talks to end post-Brexit trade row

    Northern Ireland secretary Heaton-Harris says he will ‘assess carefully all options’ for region in political limbo

  • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
    UK labour disputes
    UK train companies offer RMT union higher pay in drive to end strikes

    Rail body makes ‘best and final offer’ after talks improve, while nurses’ union urges Sunak to ‘grab olive branch’

  • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
    UK politics & policy
    BBC chair calls on UK government to take over funding for World Service

    Richard Sharp says international broadcaster’s future ‘is in jeopardy’ without more state backing

  • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
    England
    Ministers ‘falling short’ on improving England’s natural environment, says watchdog

    Office for Environmental Protection urges government to accelerate work on 25-year plan

  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    UK labour disputes
    UK ambulance strikes could last until Easter, unions warn

    GMB announces four more walkouts in February and March as it calls on government to ‘talk pay now’

  • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
    Inside Politics
    UK ‘nuclear option’ over Scotland’s gender bill is not a party-political bid for war

    Move by Sunak’s government is less about trying to pick a fight with the SNP than a legal dispute

  • Monday, 16 January, 2023
    UK labour disputes
    UK government’s anti-strike bill trashes civil liberties, says Labour

    Opposition party and unions attack legislation mandating minimum service levels as teachers vote to walk out

  • Monday, 16 January, 2023
    Inside Politics
    Constitutional showdown looms over Scotland’s transgender bill

    Holyrood law to ease the process of changing legal gender need not conflict with workings of UK-wide equalities law

  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    UK politics & policy
    UK government admits R&D-heavy small companies need more tax help

    Business groups cautiously welcome acknowledgment that reform ‘creates challenges for some SMEs’

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