As one of the four great offices of state, the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer is generally regarded as being no more ...

Budget address to the nation was supposed to soften us up for the coming blows – but it was also a public admission that she ...

I am hoping you can assist me. My wife and I are trying to complete our self-assessment tax returns for the year ending April 5 2025. I sold some shares, specifically Aberdeen Group plc (previously ...

A famously withering political putdown was once directed at ­former deputy prime minster Geoffrey Howe. Debating him, according to a rival, was like being savaged by a dead sheep. That jibe came to ...

Angela Rayner’s resignation speech in the Commons this afternoon was a political masterclass in manoeuvring and positioning.

Keir Starmer will have noted one moment at Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool. When Wes Streeting, the health secretary, ...

A century on from Thatcher’s birth, the market town of Grantham remains a microcosm of the national concerns that swept the ...

The IFS Institute fiscal studies reckons it’s about £7bn of extra borrowing. Others put it about £9bn. But as you say, George ...

A giant “Maggie Mosaic” of polaroid pictures greeted the party faithful, invoking their lost leader who died more than a decade ago. And life-size cardboard Margaret Thatcher cutouts, plus her most ...

Kemi Badenoch has made a pilgrimage to Margaret Thatcher’s home town, Grantham, on the 100th anniversary of the former prime minister’s birth. The Tory leader visited Lady Thatcher's old school, ...