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Becky MortonPolitical reporterHouse of CommonsJustice Secretary David Lammy is under growing pressure after two prisoners were released from the same London jail by mistake.Lammy, who is also deputy prime minister, had promised to introduce the…
A company linked to Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman owes £39m in tax on top of the £148m it was ordered to pay the government for breaching a contract to supply PPE.Documents…
Angus CochraneBBC ScotlandGetty ImagesThe government wants to change the way land is managed in Scotland The Scottish Parliament has passed land reforms which could force the break-up of some large estates.The bill is designed to…
Kevin PeacheyCost of living correspondentGetty ImagesPolicymakers at the Bank of England are widely expected to hold interest rates at 4% following their final meeting before the chancellor's Budget.Some Bank watchers have suggested that the latest…
Drivers of electric vehicles (EVs) could be facing a new tax in next month's Budget.With pressure on the chancellor to find tens of billions of pounds in additional revenue, the BBC understands there have been…
An MP has called for Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to be shut down after it called him a "rape enabler".The Grok chatbot made the post on X about SNP MP Pete Wishart, after…
NIKLAS HALLE'N/AFP via Getty ImagesTwo prisoners were mistakenly released from HMP Wandsworth in the past weekManhunts are under way after two men were mistakenly released from Wandsworth prison in London in the past week.The first,…
It is always perilous for a government when it clearly lacks grip on an issue voters would reasonably expect it to be in control of.The stand out example of this in recent years has been…
The election of a new mayor in New York city is rarely big news in the UK, but Zohran Mamdani's victory is generating a lot of attention, particularly on the left of British politics."This is…
Chris SteersWest MidlandsBBCEllen and Kevin Edwards with their sonFamilies say they felt they were treated like criminals when child benefit payments were wrongly stopped after going on holiday abroad due to errors.Ellen and Kevin Edwards,…
