The Prime Minister and the Chancellor have vowed to push ahead with a £12 billion National Insurance hike amid pressure from Tory MPs to ditch the controversial…

Rishi Sunak is pursuing a “complete sea change” in relations with China with the relaunch of a major trade summit that has been suspended for two years…

The most damaging charge that can be made against political leaders at a time of national crisis is that they are unserious. The depiction of Boris Johnson…

Liz Truss has recruited Boris Johnson’s official videographer to accompany her on overseas trips and overhaul her digital presence, The Telegraph can reveal. The Cabinet minister has…

Patrick Dardis, the chief executive of Young’s, said the Chancellor and Prime Minister must “wake up and smell the coffee” amid anger from businesses over the rise….

Instead, the source said that the Prime Minister was currently planning an “emblematic” announcement to soften the blow of soaring energy bills in April when the price…

I don’t have anything personally against Mark Thurston, the chief executive of HS2, but why on earth are we paying this fat-cat controller £620,000 a year? Mega…

This is desperate stuff. As part of his “Operation Big Dog” relaunch, Boris Johnson is being urged to address the cost-of-living squeeze by ditching the National Insurance…

Patrick Dardis, the chief executive of Young’s, said the Chancellor and Prime Minister must “wake up and smell the coffee” amid anger from businesses over the rise….

Briefing war erupts MPs suggest Sunak will stick to his guns on NI as it paints him as strong compared to the PM’s weakness. At a time…

Yet with the public facing a looming cost of living crisis, any sense of squandered taxpayer cash has only served to compound criticisms of Government profligacy. Only…

Helen Dickinson of the British Retail Consortium, another trade association, said just like consumers, businesses faced a cocktail of higher bills, including for National Insurance and energy,…

Despite only 10 Tory MPs voting against the levy last year, the party is now questioning whether bringing in a tax hike on top of a cost-of-living…

An extra 20 minutes of spending on the NHS, perhaps? A couple of days of the furlough scheme? Another “eat-out-to-help out” week when we all get a…

Treasury ministers and officials have already racked up more than £15,000 in travel costs shuttling between Whitehall and new Darlington offices opened under levelling-up ambitions. Rishi Sunak,…

Moreover, the pace at which the debt ratio should be reduced is not set in stone. As things stand, the OBR forecasts the current budget deficit (that…

The policy clashes reflect the challenge Mr Gove, Mr Sunak and Mr Johnson are facing as they attempt to shape and improve the levelling up plan. The…

Tax increases come as borrowing so far this year hits £136bn, making it vast by historical standards, though it is already more than £7bn below the Office…

Rishi Sunak could save middle income workers £1,642 by delaying a barrage of stealth tax grabs and planned increases in duties that will hit families hard just…

Barring the emergence of some terrible new variant, the nation has turned a corner on Covid-19. Boris Johnson has announced a full re-opening in England; the Shadow…

December saw the fastest month-on-month rise in grocery bills since 2012, of 1.3pc, driven by higher costs for bread, meat and vegetables. CPI is now expected to…

In Downing Street, both the Prime Minister and the Chancellor are only liable for a “benefit in kind” to cover heating and utilities at their official residences….

At a time when the country is still grappling with the latest wave of Covid, and the health service is under intense pressure, the government is in…

However, while it may be too early to crown the key contenders, camps are inevitably forming. Therese Coffey, the Work and Pensions Secretary, is said to be…