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  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Janan Ganesh
    Britain, France and the necessary relationship

    In a war-footing Europe, London-Paris might become what Paris-Berlin was in the era of peace

    Illustration of two crossed wooden oars, one with the Union Jack and the other one with the French flag on the tip of the blade.
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    UK property
    Reeves to launch permanent mortgage guarantee scheme

    UK government-backed programme to help buyers with deposits as low as 5%

    UK chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    UK energy
    Ministers poised to drop plans for ‘zonal pricing’ in British electricity market

    Industry had warned that splitting wholesale system could deter investment in new wind farms

    Wind turbines in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire
  • 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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  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Trump deal to leave EU facing higher tariffs than UK

    Brussels is not expecting same access to US market as British steel, cars and other products

    Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    UK local government finance
    Reform UK targets ‘broken’ system of council funding for special needs

    Party has set up a cost-cutting unit modelled on Elon Musk’s Doge initiative in US

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  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    ‘Charlie Cards’ launched to improve access to life-saving medication

    Patients in UK have legal right to request emergency supplies of medicine from any pharmacy

    Charlie Marriage
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    University of Cambridge
    Cambridge university voters gear up to elect new chancellor in contested poll

    Several candidates raise concerns over ballot registration and campaign protocols

    John Browne, Gina Miller, Mohamed El-Erian
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Markets
    Ditch snobbery about secondary listings to revive London, says CBI chair

    Rupert Soames calls for more ‘vroom vroom’ in the promotion of the London Stock Exchange to overseas companies

    Rupert Soames
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    UK crime
    Drop jury trials for some fraud and sexual crimes, official report recommends

    Former judge Brian Leveson says backlog in England and Wales ‘jeopardises’ entire system without radical overhaul

    General view of Blackfriars crown court
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Office for National Statistics UK
    UK Statistics Authority chair to step down after ‘systemic’ failures at ONS

    Sir Robert Chote to relinquish post in the autumn to take up role at Oxford university

    Robert Chote
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    News in-depthUK tax
    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
    French politics
    Macron urges Britain and France to move on from Brexit and work ‘side by side’

    French president says two countries have ‘special responsibility’ for security of Europe

    French President Emmanuel Macron addresses parliament in the Palace of Westminster, London
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    British Museum
    How British Museum secured chance to host Bayeux Tapestry’s return to UK after 900 years

    Loan of the 70m-long celebration of the 1066 Norman invasion was sealed after weeks of high level diplomacy

    The Bayeux Tapestry
  • 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
    ObituaryNorman Tebbit
    Norman Tebbit, Conservative politician, 1931-2025

    A former airline pilot and key ally of Margaret Thatcher whose uncompromising views won him admiration and antipathy

    UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Conservative party chair Norman Tebbit in 1987
  • 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

    City workers pass the Bank of England
  • 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
    UK crime
    Three men found guilty of Wagner-linked arson attack on London warehouse

    Group targeted units of a company shipping humanitarian aid to Ukraine

    Two units in the Cromwell Industrial Estate were set on fire in March 2024
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    UK labour disputes
    Resident doctors in England vote for strike action

    Decision by members of British Medical Association puts at risk government pledge to cut NHS waiting times

    Doctors protesting in London during last year’s pay dispute
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    UK politics
    Norman Tebbit dies aged 94

    Loyal enforcer in Thatcher government curbed trade unions and survived Brighton hotel bombing

    Norman Tebbit on a bench at the Houses of Parliament
  • 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’

    The Shard
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Wind power
    Onshore wind projects still scarce in England despite planning reforms

    One year on from Labour lifting a de facto ban, few large applications have been made

    Wind turbines at Biggleswade wind farm in Biggleswade, UK
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Aerospace & Defence
    Government urged to help private sector fund defence industry

    Task force led by CBI and Oliver Wyman calls for ‘substantially improved visibility’ through 10-year state investment plan

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