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UK watchdog probes US drug pricing deal

The government has said the deal will cost £1 billion over the current spending review period, with no additional funding to be announced in the budget this year. However, officials have refused to disclose the deal's…

Rafe Fletcher: The Tories should go further on National Insurance

My stay in the country is no longer tied to an employment visa. That newly granted status means making obligatory contributions to my Central Provident Fund (CPF), Singapore’s social insurance plan, which chiefly covers…

EU capitals weaken end-of-year deadline for budget deal

They will also discuss energy prices, enlargement, Ukraine and migration. Several countries, including Italy and France, urged Costa’s team to drop a reference to “reaching a final agreement by the end of the year” from…

Budget ‘beerlaterals’: How Burnham and Healey really work

Elsewhere, has the government headed off a rebellion over the Courts Bill – and is its plan to build its way out of the prison crisis already unravelling? Plus, with the budget looming, economic critic Lord Jim O’Neill…

This civil war on the British right is a charade – its politics are more united than ever | Jonathan Liew

"Vote Restore get Islamists," Tice chides. "Vote Reform, get some random Bangladeshi bloke," Lowe responds. Meanwhile, the Conservatives are back. The Kemibounce is real. The Keminaissance is true. We've all got a severe…

Ed Davey is a joke

That’s better. Let us not hide behind the shield of naivety. We all know it to be true. When he’s not bumbling around the country looking for the nearest bridge to leap off of , he’s busy concocting some utterly bizarre…

Why 'cool kids' won't let Swindon in Thames Valley

The government wants district and borough councils to be scrapped to make way for larger combined authorities, many of which will be run by mayors. The issue for Swindon, however, is that some of the council leaders in…

Katie Lam: Our plan to get Britain building again

At last week’s Conservative Party Conference, Kemi laid out the clear dividing lines between us and Labour. They’ll always take more of people’s money; we want to let people keep what they earn. They’ll always think that…

Ben Ramanauskas: Cutting National Insurance contributions isn’t enough

He is currently writing a book on the UK economy. The Shadow Chancellor, Andrew Griffith recently announced that if the Tories were to win the next General Election, that they will halve Employers’ NI for 21-24 year…

Chris Mason: Lib Dems rally behind Davey as he pledges change

But that doesn't mean there hasn't been grumbling going on. In the last week, two members of Sir Ed Davey's frontbench have resigned because they were unhappy with him, the party's direction and how policy is decided. It…