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 said the UK must “prepare for the worst” and there is every expectation in...
There is a “high degree of uncertainty” over how much of the hundreds of millions of pounds lent to sports bodies during the Covid pandemic will be repaid, says an influential group of MPs. In a report, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) criticises “severe weaknesses” in the way the Department of Culture, Media and Sport...
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 priorities and spending cuts Rachel Reeves announced in her Spring Statement. When folk in government...
