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Starmer offered big US tech firms tax cuts in return for lower Trump tariffs

10h ago

Donald Trump signs off UK’s handover of Chagos Islands to Mauritius

12h ago

A sketch writers’ benefit? An April fool? Either way, big thanks to Mel and Kemi | John Crace

13h ago

UK in ‘best possible position’ to negotiate future exemptions from Trump tariffs, business secretary says – UK politics live

21h ago

Millions of Britons brace for across-the-board bill rises in ‘awful April’

Tue

No 10 concedes UK will be hit by new Trump tariffs as trade deal talks drag on

Mon

Will bills continue to rise and what does it mean for Labour?

Mon

Starmer tells Britons they are ‘right’ to be ‘angry about illegal migration’ as he opens summit – UK politics live

Mon

Designers say plans for UK copyright law risk ‘running roughshod’ over sector

Mon

Senior Tories and big landlords discuss ways to thwart renters’ rights bill

Mon

Vulnerable patients will lose vital support with Pip cuts | Letters

Sun

Minister attacks expenses rules after Labour MP’s claim for ‘pet rent’

Sun

Labour group tells MPs they must be ‘on YouTube and TikTok’

Sun

Yvette Cooper reviews right to family life for people who enter UK irregularly

Sun

Prosecution of people who help clients evade tax in UK falls by 75% in five years

Sun

MPs to vote on disability benefit cuts without knowing ‘full impact’

Sun

Keir Starmer urged to get tough with Trump as US tariff threat looms

Sat

UK ministers need to ask why they are offered freebies – and who loses out

Fri

Labour ads use NHS to attack Farage’s views before major Reform rally

Fri

No 10 happy to dip its toe into culture wars in row with Sentencing Council

Fri

Keir Starmer’s communications chief quits after nine months

Fri

Starmer promises to fix north of England’s ‘Victorian-era’ rail and bus system – UK politics live

Fri

Wes Streeting’s plan to fix the NHS – Politics Weekly Westminster

Fri

Stonewall will fight to ban all LGBT conversion practices, says new chief

Fri

Sue Gray warns No 10 to be careful about cuts to civil service

Thu

Reeves may have to find further cuts and tax hikes amid economic gloom

Thu

Record 4.5m children in poverty in UK as cuts condemned as ‘morally repugnant’

Thu

Reeves could tax pensions and wealth if economy worsens, says IFS

Thu

Rachel Reeves says she will not accept free concert tickets in future after criticism

Thu

Rachel Reeves defends benefit cuts and denies further tax rises likely in autumn – UK politics live

Thu

Labour MPs condemn Rachel Reeves’s ‘unacceptable’ welfare cuts

Wed

Reeves accused of balancing books on back of UK’s poorest

Wed

OBR halves 2025 growth forecast to 1% as UK faces ‘more uncertain’ outlook

Wed

Assisted dying bill is ‘flawed and dangerous’ after changes, says group of Labour MPs

Wed

Streeting: Israel’s attacks on Gaza are ‘unjustifiable’ and ‘intolerable’

Tue

UK ministers vow to tackle forced labour in supply chains to mollify MPs

Tue

Firm paid to house migrants in hotels loses Home Office contract over ‘performance and behaviour’ – UK politics live

Tue

‘I don’t think it’s appropriate,’ housing minister says of accepting free tickets

Tue

Labour accused of turning ‘blind eye to slavery’ over solar panels made in China

Tue

Labour delight in welcome distraction of Heathrow crisis-not-really-a-crisis | John Crace

Mar 24

David Williams obituary

Mar 24

Thirty-seven patients die needlessly each day in the NHS. Change is good, but patient safety must come first | Jeremy Hunt

Mar 24

Starmer confirms he wants to ‘take some money out of government’ as part of efficiency drive – UK politics live

Mar 24

MPs could axe clause in bill banning forced labour in GB Energy supply chain

Mar 23

Labour plan for £2bn in Whitehall cuts will hit frontline services, union warns

Mar 23

Starmer is warned against ‘appeasing’ Trump with tax cut for US tech firms

Mar 23

Labour must involve whole country if it wants to achieve its goals, report warns

Mar 23

Labour mayoral candidate on race to stop Reform – and ‘Doge Lincolnshire’

Mar 23

Labour head of Commons tech group warns No 10 not to ignore AI concerns

Mar 23

Rachel Reeves to cut 10,000 civil service jobs in effort to lower government costs

Mar 23

All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns

Mar 22

‘Wake-up call’: ministers launch urgent investigation into Heathrow shutdown

Mar 22

Reeves to raise spectre of Liz Truss to persuade Labour MPs to accept cuts

Mar 21

A ‘back to work’ approach to mental illness is no panacea | Letters

Mar 21

Martin Rowson on Labour beating ploughshares into swords – cartoon

Mar 21

‘I want us to get it right’: Rachael Maskell on becoming Labour’s reluctant rebel

Mar 21

Lords watchdog investigating Labour peer who wrote to Treasury on behalf of crypto firm

Mar 21

Labour ‘absolutely up for the fight’ over net zero, Ed Miliband says – UK politics live

Mar 21

‘Stain on this country’: celebrities condemn cuts to UK disability benefits

Mar 21

A dustpan and brush with fine art | Brief letters

Mar 20

Defra asks England’s biggest landowners to come up with plans to restore nature

Mar 20

Tory co-chair braces party for big losses as Kemi Badenoch launches local elections campaign – UK politics live

Mar 20

Reeves to reveal biggest UK spending cuts since austerity in spring statement

Mar 19

Scores of Labour MPs raise concerns over welfare changes

Mar 19

A defeated KemiKaze offers less opposition than Starmer’s own MPs | John Crace

Mar 19

Group of Labour MPs seeking to steer young men away from ‘toxic influencers’

Mar 19

Minister refuses to rule out further benefit cuts amid backlash over cuts to disability payments – UK politics live

Mar 19

Peer who led government NHS review failed to declare shares in health firms

Mar 19

Rising bill for benefits has also wreaked ‘terrible human cost’, says Keir Starmer

Mar 19

Tuesday briefing: The devastating toll of Labour’s disability welfare cuts

Mar 19

Liz Kendall struggles to sell ‘immoral and devastating’ disability benefits cut

Mar 18

Up to 1.2m disabled people will lose thousands in UK welfare overhaul, experts warn

Mar 18

The human cost of yet another NHS reorganisation | Letters

Mar 18

Minister defends disability benefit cuts, saying you can’t ‘tax and borrow your way out of need to reform state’ – UK politics live

Mar 18