Politics

The Welsh Government has started a consultation over school term dates - which would see the summer holidays cut down to just four weeks, while the autumn break could be extended

What time is the Autumn Statement 2023? Will the state pension increase, how will income tax and National Insurance rates change and will benefits such as Universal Credit rise?

Labour's Liz Kendall and Wes Streeting warned it would be 'unforgivable' for the Government to 'stand by and do nothing' about mental health in the Autumn Statement

Fifty-five projects across the UK were awarded a share of nearly £1billion but Labour criticised ministers for failing to explain what will happen to unsuccessful areas

Ex-Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance handed his private diaries to the Covid Inquiry which detail extraordinary claims over the running of Government during the pandemic

The former Prime Minister who is no longer an MP dressed in ceremonial robes as he took his place in the House of Lords this afternoon, officially becoming Lord Cameron

The Autumn Statement is predicted to include tax cuts, says Fleet Street Fox. What a lovely idea, except for the maths

Top scientist Sir Patrick Vallance kept a bombshell diary on the Government’s handling of the pandemic that details the chaos in Downing Street, including Boris Johnson's actions

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will deliver his Autumn Statement to Parliament on Wednesday with updates for households on taxes, pensions and benefits including Universal Credit

The Conservatives vowed at the last election that they would not raise national insurance, but Rishi Sunak hiked it as he took the country to its highest tax burden in 70 years

Tory MP John Glen told a Conservative gathering at Cambridge University last month that his elderly mother was 'perfectly comfortable' and didn't need the winter fuel payment

The IPPR warned teachers are being driven out of the profession by the stress caused by high-stakes Ofsted inspections as it called for the end of one-word ratings

The Liberal Democrats, which commissioned the polling, warned that the crisis in the health service is damaging economic growth as people are forced to take time off

Amid the cost of living crisis, the rent on a flat Jeremy Hunt lets out has gone through the roof - with an 18% increase that was more than double the inflation rate

More than 125,000 families in Cabinet ministers' own constituencies will be £23.7million worse off if Chancellor Jeremy Hunt meddles with Universal Credit in Autumn Statement

Slashing inheritance tax would heighten the deepening inequality between the have-nots and have-yachts, says Kevin Maguire, adding that Tories have fleeced ordinary workers

Tenants who moved into Jeremy Hunt's ­apartment last summer were charged £300 more a month than previous ones. The 18% increase was almost twice the rate of inflation at the time

The Public Accounts Committee found 700,000 pupils are in schools that need major rebuilding or refurbishment as it warned the deterioration of classrooms is affecting learning

The Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Paul Johnson said the country's welfare system is 'possibly the meanest in Europe in terms of how it treats the unemployed'

Jeremy Hunt was shown a question on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg asking: 'Why change inheritance tax when you have the lower paid struggling to pay their bills?'

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is rumoured to be considering slashing the welfare bill by around £1.3 billion by not increasing benefits in the usual way

As Tory Jeremy Hunt reportedly plots slashing benefits and cutting inheritance tax, Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveiled Labour's plan to save working families up to £3,000 a year

A wooden barrier will be erected around Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Grade II listed mansion in Kirby Sigston, North Yorkshire, against the objections of some locals

Analysis claims cash has been washed down the plughole in failed projects and incompetence - including £15bn on duff Covid PPE and £2.3bn on the parts of HS2 Rishi Sunak abandoned

An average of £25billion was wasted by the Tory Government every year since the 2019 election – almost all when Rishi Sunak was Chancellor or Prime Minister, claim campaigners