Rachel Reeves tells Whitehall departments to prepare for a budget freeze under 'flat cash' spending plans

found 2025 › Feb › 04 (Tue) @ 07:19 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Rachel Reeves has told several Whitehall departments to prepare for their budgets to be frozen under 'flat cash' spending plans, it emerged last night.

‘Epidemic’ of violence against women and girls in UK is getting worse – report

found 2025 › Jan › 31 (Fri) @ 06:27 UTC

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National Audit Office says government attempts to tackle misogynistic violence are hampered by poor coordination

An “epidemic of violence against women and girls” in the UK is getting worse despite ye…

Whitehall is at risk from hackers due to poor cyber defences and outdated IT, report warns

found 2025 › Jan › 29 (Wed) @ 06:58 UTC

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The inquiry by the National Audit Office (NAO) was branded a 'wake-up call' for officials to step-up defences against hostile actors.

Spending 2.5% of Britain's GDP on defence is the minimum needed to keep UK safe, Labour review to say - despite Treasury warnings it cannot be afforded

found 2025 › Jan › 28 (Tue) @ 06:04 UTC

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Whitehall sources told the Mail that the Strategic Defence Review due this spring will state that spending 2.5 per cent of Britain's GDP on defence is the minimum needed to keep the country safe.

Southport killer will be treated as a terrorist in jail, Yvette Cooper tells MPs – politics live

found 2025 › Jan › 21 (Tue) @ 17:55 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Home secretary also says inquiry into the attack will cover wider threat posed by youth violence

Starmer says nothing will be off the table in the inquiry.

There are also questions about the accountabi…

Tory government’s response to child abuse inquiry recommendations ‘awful’, says its chair – politics live

found 2025 › Jan › 21 (Tue) @ 11:52 UTC

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Professor Alexis Jay says written response from Conservatives was ‘inconsequential… committed to nothing’

Starmer says nothing will be off the table in the inquiry.

There are also questions about the a…

‘Nothing off the table’ in Southport attack inquiry, says Starmer as he hits back at cover-up claims – UK politics live

found 2025 › Jan › 21 (Tue) @ 09:07 UTC

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PM says ministers would never have been forgiven if they had released information about the attack that led to the collapse of a future trial

Starmer says nothing will be off the table in the inquiry.

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More than 70 arrested at London protest against Israel’s war in Gaza

found 2025 › Jan › 19 (Sun) @ 09:55 UTC

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Thousands gather in Whitehall and allegedly break through police line to advance to Trafalgar Square

More than 70 pro-Palestinian demonstrators were arrested in central London on Saturday on suspicion…

Brits could live 50 miles from local town hall under Angela Rayner's devolution plan that hands new powers over transport and housing to elected mayors

found 2024 › Dec › 16 (Mon) @ 10:50 UTC

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In a speech to regional leaders, the Deputy Prime Minister will vow to push power out of Whitehall and into the hands of people with 'skin in the game' across a range of policy areas including housin…

'Spy at heart of Whitehall' and PM criticised for 'housing slums'

found 2024 › Dec › 15 (Sun) @ 09:26 UTC

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Disclosures about an alleged Chinese spy operating in the UK and the PM criticised for allowing 'slum' housing are in Sunday's papers.