Danny Fullbrook BBC News, Bedfordshire Universal Studios / Comcast A new Universal theme park will be built in the UK, the government has confirmed. It will be constructed on the site of the former Kempston Hardwick brickworks near Bedford and is expected to generate 28,000 jobs before it opens in 2031. Universal estimated the 476-acre...
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones has described the era of globalisation as “ended”, following Donald Trump’s new tariffs. It comes after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer suggested in a Sunday Telegraph article he was about to announce state intervention to protect UK firms from the US president’s move. The UK was among nations...
The government has threatened to override the body advising judges in England and Wales in a row over how ethnic minority offenders should be sentenced, days before new rules are set to take effect. It comes after the Sentencing Council refused a request from Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood for it to rethink new instructions for...
Treasury minister Darren Jones has apologised for comparing benefits for disabled people to “pocket money”. Jones, who is deputy to Chancellor Rachel Reeves, was defending welfare cuts on the BBC’s Politics Live after Wednesday’s Spring Statement when he made the gaffe. Government analysis suggests more than 3 million families will on average be £1,720 a...
Brian Wheeler Political reporter Reuters The US launched air strikes towards Yemen on 15 March The lives of British servicemen and women have not been put at risk by a major security breach in the United States, the UK armed forces minister has told MPs. Luke Pollard said he had “high confidence” that British operational...