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  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    UK foreign policy
    Iran poses ‘persistent’ threat to UK, warns intelligence committee

    Parliamentary report finds there has been a ‘significant increase’ in risk faced by dissidents and Jewish people in Britain

    1 hour ago
    An Iranian crosses a street next to a billboard bearing the portrait of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Robert Shrimsley
    Britain is living beyond its means

    No party looks truly ready to confront tax-resistant voters with some hard questions

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  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    UK energy
    UK abandons zonal pricing plan for electricity

    Ministers will instead explore less radical reforms such as how generators pay to access transmission network

    Wind turbines at a wind farm are visible among electricity pylons
  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    HM Treasury
    Reeves asks FCA head of communications to review Treasury media operation

    Move comes as UK chancellor prepares to brief Labour MPs on tough fiscal outlook ahead of Autumn Budget

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  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    UK defence nuclear
    UK and France vow to co-ordinate nuclear weapons for first time

    Announcement marks increase in co-operation between allies amid growing threat from Russia

    An unarmed missile is fired from HMS Vigilant
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    UK energy
    UK set to hold minority stake in Sizewell C nuclear project

    Ministers close in on final deal to secure private investment into multibillion-pound development

    Illustration of the planned Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    UK tax
    Keir Starmer refuses to rule out extending tax-band freeze

    Labour government is battling to fill fiscal hole that some economists say could amount to more than £20bn

    Keir Starmer speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Is the UK’s triple lock pension the carousel that won’t stop?

    Difficulty of curbing growing state spending on a policy tied to broader problem of ageism

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  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
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    What is on Rachel Reeves’ menu for raising UK taxes?

    Chancellor could extend freeze on personal thresholds or impose fresh levies on wealthy to fill fiscal hole

    Composite photo showing Rachel Reeves and a dual-axis chart
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Post Office scandal
    Post Office ‘maintained the fiction’ that Horizon IT system worked, inquiry finds

    Damning report says at least 6 sub-postmasters have died by suicide over flawed software scandal

    Former Post Office workers celebrate outside London’s Royal Courts of Justice after having their convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal in 2021
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    UK public finances
    UK faces ‘daunting’ risks to public finances, OBR warns

    Britain’s ability to respond to future shocks is ‘substantially eroded’ because of high debt, says fiscal watchdog

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  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Nuclear energy
    Brookfield set to take over 20% stake in Sizewell C

    Canadian equity firm poised to become largest private investor in nuclear plant as EDF reduces stake to 12.5%

    A general view of the construction site entrance to Sizewell C
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Labour’s taxes on wealthy are already doing more harm than good

    Party has boxed itself in and is gaining none of the political credit for introducing non-dom changes

    Rachel Reeves holding the red Budget box
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    UK politics
    Labour MPs hit out at party’s plans for Mitie-sponsored drinks soirée

    Politicians and trade unions warn event is at odds with government’s pledge to expand ‘insourcing’

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  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Shipping
    UK challenges more than 40 ‘shadow fleet’ ships a month in English Channel

    High number of checks highlights new European efforts to squeeze Russian exports

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  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
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    UK seeks to rein in employers’ use of ‘gagging clauses’

    Weinstein whistleblower welcomes changes that will help workers speak out against sexual harassment

    Campaigners from Can’t Buy My Silence and Pregnant Then Screwed, take part in a protest outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London
  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    UK tax
    Downing Street leaves door open to higher UK taxes on the wealthy

    Treasury says it will protect ‘working people’ ahead of what is set to be a painful autumn Budget

    Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer
  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    UK manufacturing
    UK officials hopeful steel industry will avoid 50% US tariff

    Deadline for countries to sign deals with Trump expires on Wednesday

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  • Saturday, 5 July, 2025
    Stephen Bush
    How Labour can resurrect itself

    To recover from a dreadful first year, Starmer must acknowledge his failures

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of a broken Chinese vase with the Labour party symbol on it, stuck together with tape and with a tube of glue next to it
  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    Ministry of Defence UK
    UK government to pay £1.6mn to Afghan data breach victims

    MoD to compensate hundreds of individuals whose identities were exposed during the allied evacuation of Kabul in 2021

    Members of the UK Armed Forces take part in the evacuation of entitled personnel from Kabul airport
  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    UK arts
    Edinburgh festivals struggle to lure corporate sponsors after boycott

    Performances cut by a fifth despite government cash injection following Baillie Gifford’s exit

    Members of the public walk past posters advertising shows ahead of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
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    Dinosaurs to doctors’ records: the UK weighs up its data assets Premium content

    Data may be this century’s oil, but it doesn’t come in barrels at a daily-benchmarked price

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  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    Labour party UK
    Q&A: How has Labour fared after one year in power?

    FT experts answered your questions

    Stephen Bush, Miranda Green and Robert Shrimsley
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Why Starmer and Reeves got this one wrong

    Blaming the parliamentary party for poor discipline misses the bigger problem of the bill’s lack of logic

    Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    UK politics
    MPs vote to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation

    MPs back UK government’s proposal by 385 votes to 26 to ban the pro-Palestinian activist group

    Activists from Palestine Action occupied the roof of Guardtech, a company they accuse of being in business with Israeli defence contractor Elbit Systems in Brandon, England on July 1
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