ReutersA week ago, Westminster was digesting the chancellor's Spring Statement and all the talk was of a tightrope walk and precarious public finances.Next, let's go back nearly two decades to the financial crisis and the historically poor growth and...

Office lights in some corners of Westminster were on much later than usual last night.Why? Because ministers and officials, just like so many others, were watching the telly to see what President Trump would have to say, the Business...

I detect a reasonable sprinkle of the jitters in government as the world waits for US President Donald Trump's tariffs announcement later.It is the single most globally consequential day so far of the president's second term.Foreign Secretary David Lammy...

The world has changed, said the chancellor -- and hours later it did, again.It is a phrase that has become a familiar one at Westminster in the last few days and the line used to justify the shift in...

BBC"The world has changed" is the mantra we are hearing from the government.It is a phrase designed to explain and justify the chancellor's argument on Wednesday in what is known as her Spring Statement.The Conservatives are branding it an...