Sam Francis Political reporter Jack Fenwick Political correspondent PA Media The government has set out plans to end the use of hotels to hold asylum seekers by 2029, a move Rachel Reeves says will save £1bn a year. Unveiling her Spending Review on Wednesday, the chancellor pledged £200m to “cut the asylum backlog, hear more…
Getty Images Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced the government’s Spending Review, which outlines the day-to-day budgets for departments over the next three years. The review affects funding for public services such as the NHS, schools, housing, prisons and policing, as well as other areas, including transport and infrastructure. Here BBC correspondents analyse how key services…
The UK has a agreed a deal with the European Union over Gibraltar’s status after Brexit. Talks on rules governing the border of Spain and Gibraltar have been ongoing since Britain left the EU in 2020. The UK said the agreement would avoid the need for checks on people and goods crossing the Gibraltar-Spain border….
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has delivered her Spending Review, setting out budgets for government departments. Source link
The standoff between President Trump’s negotiating team and Iran boils down to this: whether the United States is willing to risk allowing Iran to continue producing nuclear fuel if the alternative is no deal and the possibility of another war in the Middle East. To Mr. Trump and his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, the negotiations…
Kevin Peachey Cost of living correspondent Getty Images All the talk of departmental budgets and fiscal rules may feel somewhat distant from the cost of groceries and the rest of the family finances. The Spending Review is not a Budget in which taxes are changed or a host of new policies announced. But, don’t be…
A federal appeals court agreed on Tuesday to allow President Trump to maintain many of his tariffs on China and other U.S. trading partners, extending a pause granted shortly after another panel of judges ruled in late May that the import taxes were illegal. The decision, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is pushing to investigate whether Harvard University violated federal sanctions by collaborating on a health insurance conference in China that may have included officials blacklisted by the U.S. government, according to people familiar with the matter and documents reviewed by The New York Times. Mr. Rubio signed off on a…
When Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton, the Democrat and nonvoting delegate for Washington, D.C., attended a recent gala to accept an award honoring her decades-long career in Congress, she appeared to be struggling to read her brief remarks. Standing onstage at Arena Stage in April, Ms. Norton referred to the “National Environment for the Arts,” lauded…
Bryan Bedford, President Trump’s nominee to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, will face questions from senators on Wednesday at a critical juncture for an agency confronting staffing shortages and mounting concerns about passenger safety. Mr. Bedford spent decades running and revamping regional commercial airlines, including Republic Airways, where he currently serves as president, chief executive…
