'Taxes are going up' – BBC decodes Reeves's pre-Budget speech
Henry Zeffman analyses what may be in the chancellor's upcoming budget plans.
Category: Political Insight
Could Rachel Reeves break a 50-year taboo by raising income tax in her Budget?
It has been called the 50-year tax taboo.It is more than half a century since a chancellor of the exchequer chose to put up the basic rate of income tax.The chancellor in question was Labour's…
Online porn showing choking to be made illegal, government says
Online pornography showing strangulation or suffocation is to be made illegal, as part of government plans to tackle violence against women and girls.It follows a review which found depictions of choking were "rife" on mainstream…
We are ready to discuss human rights law changes, top ECHR boss tells BBC
Dominic CascianiHome and Legal CorrespondentBBCAlain Berset, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, the political guardian of the ECHR The political head of the body that oversees the European Convention on Human Rights has told…
Calls for legal right to paid leave for IVF treatment
Georgia RobertsPolitical Correspondent SUPPLIEDNatalie Rowntree says both she and her husband have been using sick days to attend IVF appointments Natalie Rowntree from North Yorkshire has recently started her IVF journey, and describes the process…
Hillsborough victims were failed by the state, says Keir Starmer
Lynette HorsburghNorth WestPAPrime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the British state failed the families and victims of Hillsborough to an almost inhuman levelThe "unlawfully killed" Hillsborough disaster victims and their families were failed by the…
China academic intimidation claim referred to counter-terrorism police
An investigation into allegations that Sheffield Hallam University faced sustained pressure from China to shut down human rights research has been referred to counter-terrorism police.The BBC and the Guardian newspaper has been reporting that documents…
Why is there a no confidence motion in the education minister?
Paul Givan responds to criticism after visiting a school in Israel.
Lord Mandelson was not interviewed for US ambassador job
Civil service bosses have told MPs that Lord Mandelson, who was sacked as UK ambassador to the US due to close links with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, was never formally interviewed for the job.The head…
Ex-Labour councillor in court over ‘honeytrap’ allegations
PA MediaEx-Labour councillor Oliver Steadman has appeared in court facing a charge of blackmail in connection with the alleged 'honeytrap' plot targeting men involved in Westminster politics last year. Mr Steadman, 28, was arrested in…