Politics

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has unveiled his Autumn Statement with a larger-than-expected cut to National Insurance, while also announcing Universal Credit would go up by 6.7%

Keir Starmer criticised the record number of people on an NHS waiting list for treatment, which had jumped up by half a million since Rishi Sunak pledged to cut waits

Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt will unveil the Autumn Statement today with tax changes on the cards - and he'll be hoping he doesn't make an awkward blunder like he did at a past Tory conference

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced what the National Living Wage and the National Minimum Wage will be from April 2024 onwards ahead of the Autumn Statement today

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will announce Universal Credit and state pension rates as he unveils the Government's tax and spending plans in the Autumn Statement

Fewer than one in six (16%) of voters think their personal finances will improve over the next six months as the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt prepares to unveil the Autumn Statement

Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer faced accusations of "dereliction of duty" for not helping nuclear survivors find their missing medical records, but accused others of "politicisation"

Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Chris Whitty told the Covid Inquiry the Cheltenham Festival and Liverpool's Champions League match before lockdown should have been cancelled

New Foreign Secretary David Cameron mocked Boris Johnson's No10 farewell reference to Cincinnatus - a Roman leader who returned from his farm to lead for a second time

Treasury minister Laura Trott said tax cuts announced in the Autumn Statement would include ones that help individuals, such as slashing income tax or national insurance

The Welsh Government has started a consultation over school term dates - which would see the summer holidays cut down to just four weeks, while the autumn break could be extended

What time is the Autumn Statement 2023? Will the state pension increase, how will income tax and National Insurance rates change and will benefits such as Universal Credit rise?

Labour's Liz Kendall and Wes Streeting warned it would be 'unforgivable' for the Government to 'stand by and do nothing' about mental health in the Autumn Statement

Fifty-five projects across the UK were awarded a share of nearly £1billion but Labour criticised ministers for failing to explain what will happen to unsuccessful areas

Ex-Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance handed his private diaries to the Covid Inquiry which detail extraordinary claims over the running of Government during the pandemic

The former Prime Minister who is no longer an MP dressed in ceremonial robes as he took his place in the House of Lords this afternoon, officially becoming Lord Cameron

The Autumn Statement is predicted to include tax cuts, says Fleet Street Fox. What a lovely idea, except for the maths

Top scientist Sir Patrick Vallance kept a bombshell diary on the Government’s handling of the pandemic that details the chaos in Downing Street, including Boris Johnson's actions

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will deliver his Autumn Statement to Parliament on Wednesday with updates for households on taxes, pensions and benefits including Universal Credit

The Conservatives vowed at the last election that they would not raise national insurance, but Rishi Sunak hiked it as he took the country to its highest tax burden in 70 years

Tory MP John Glen told a Conservative gathering at Cambridge University last month that his elderly mother was 'perfectly comfortable' and didn't need the winter fuel payment

The IPPR warned teachers are being driven out of the profession by the stress caused by high-stakes Ofsted inspections as it called for the end of one-word ratings

The Liberal Democrats, which commissioned the polling, warned that the crisis in the health service is damaging economic growth as people are forced to take time off

Amid the cost of living crisis, the rent on a flat Jeremy Hunt lets out has gone through the roof - with an 18% increase that was more than double the inflation rate

More than 125,000 families in Cabinet ministers' own constituencies will be £23.7million worse off if Chancellor Jeremy Hunt meddles with Universal Credit in Autumn Statement