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What is the UK’s ‘tax burden’ - and how much tax is paid on workers’ earnings?

This explainer unpacks what the ‘tax burden’ is and how taxes on earnings in the UK compare both historically and internationally, as well as how things have changed, and are set to change, under Labour. Join 75,000…

Iceland still wants a close relationship with the EU

Iceland first decided to apply for EU membership in 2009, following the 2008 financial crisis which hit the country particularly hard. Negotiations were suspended in 2013 following the election of a new right-wing…

UK Column News — 23rd September 2026

UK Column News Shownotes 00:30 Burnham: At the UN General Assembly United Kingdom - General Debate, 81st Session | UN Web TV Prime Minister drives global work on artificial intelligence at UNGA as UK and US make history…

How to capture the Tonbridge Tories

That led to a lethal intellectual falling-out with the Conservatives, and then to a thesis: the centre ought to unite. I heeded the call and joined the Liberal Democrats. But such a project cannot live on tactical votes.…

Britain’s far-right violence comes to us direct from the 1970s. But so does the solution | Taj Ali

A section of the high street had been cordoned off and a uniformed police officer gestured for bystanders to move along. It was the long hot summer of 1976, and a racist murder had stunned Southall in west London . "What…

UK to review Chagos Islands deal over lack of US support, Streeting tells BBC

The original agreement would see the UK cede sovereignty of the territory to Mauritius and pay an average of £101m ($136m) per year to lease back a joint UK-US military base there, prized for its strategic location in…

Vater, Mutter, Kinder – Alice Weidel und das Familienbild der AfD

Wie reagiert die Parteichefin, wenn Spitzenkandidaten wie Ulrich Siegmund ihr Lebensmodell öffentlich abwerten und Parteikollegen gegen sexuelle Minderheiten hetzen? Pauline von Pezold und Frederik Schindler analysieren…

Charlotte Salomon: AI is testing the limits of the law – Parliament must not panic

She has worked in political communications and was a Conservative candidate at the 2024 general election. It began, as these things do, with a routine instruction. This summer, inside an environment built to contain it…

The bigger your car, the bigger your fuel duty cut

With households facing higher costs from the conflict in Iran, the party wants an emergency three-month package: a 10p cut in fuel duty, cheaper rail and bus fares, and lower EV charging costs. The bill is around £2…

Burnham survived his first Trump meeting. His nice hair may have had something to do with it | Emma Brockes

Are they making friends? How normal do they seem relative to the average? How will they react when they come into contact with that hulking great child who seems to be running things? Burnham's first face-to-face with…