Jeremy Hunt has been urged to slash business tax amid a growing Tory-rebellion backed by former prime minister Liz Truss. The Chancellor will use his speech at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester on Monday (October 2) to promise the national living wage will rise to at least £11 an hour from April. It comes on the same day Ms […]

Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has revealed that during Liz Truss’s short-lived premiership, he came up with a tax-cutting plan so radical that even the Thatcher-loving Tory leader blocked it. Speaking at a packed conference fringe event in Manchester, Sir Jacob says he backed an unprecedented plan to abolish income tax as we know it, and instead move to a single flat […]

The Prime Minister is expected to confirm hushed plans to stop HS2 proposals in their tracks, in what will be a major blow to north-western communities. The decision, it’s reported, was made public just minutes before Chancellor Jeremy Hunt was due to speak at the Tory party conference in Manchester today. It has long been speculated that the plans, linking […]

Jeremy Hunt mocks SNP, Labour and Lib Dems in conference speech Jeremy Hunt had Rishi Sunak in stitches during his conference speech as he mocked the SNP. The Chancellor took aim at Humza Yousaf’s party, the Lib Dems and Labour as he addressed the main hall at the Tory conference in Manchester. Mr Hunt said: “We’ll tighten the law to […]

The political decisions around the coronavirus lockdown, travel restrictions, and social distancing will be scrutinised by the Covid-19 inquiry. The Government’s work between January 2020 and February 2022, when final restrictions were lifted, will be put under the microscope as the inquiry gets underway in the coming weeks. It will look at key decision-making in Westminster, including the regional tier […]

A new interactive map reveals where all the new 20mph zones will be set out in the heart of London. The map, created by the group 20’s Plenty For Us, shows where every 20mph limit will be when the roll-out has finished. The green areas show the new zones will be extensive and spread across the UK’s biggest city from […]

Suella Braverman warns that the migrant crisis will disintegrate the world The Tory’s working class hero Lee Anderson has found himself the latest target of former Countdown star Carol Vorderman’s wrath on social media. As the Conservatives prepare to open their conference in Manchester, the two have exchanged verbal blows on Twitter in two days of fierce exchanges which have […]

The Pentagon has announced that two BRAVO Artificial Intelligence Battle Labs will be established at U.S. European Command and the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, in collaboration with the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s Algorithmic Warfare Directorate and the Defense Innovation Unit. Over the next year, the labs will organize multiple U.S. federal government-wide BRAVO Hackathons, including some with coalition partners. […]

Sunak provides update on ‘stop the boats’ pledge in June The Prime Minister has sparked a diplomatic row with Spain after the UK demanded that a European summit next week abandon its current agenda in favour of crucial discussions about illegal migration. Rishi Sunak wants the forthcoming European Political Community summit to make the issue its top priority, and scrap […]