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UK government met 137 businesses over AI datacentres – but no environmental groups

The nonprofit organisation Spotlight on Corruption said a "considerable revolving door" shaped the government's development of "AI growth zones", a central plank of the former prime minister Keir Starmer's AI and…

Tomorrow’s Budget won’t be like the 1970s

It’s a rather boring ordeal. Every right-of-centre commentator will spew the same lines, arguing that tax hikes are bad, welfare should be reined in and defence should be funded properly. Meanwhile, those on the left…

David Willetts: The Budgetary significance of ‘persnuffle’ and ‘PuFins’ should not be overlooked

Budgets are moments when the big trends driving tax and public spending surface with visible, politically significant decisions. During the forty years which followed the 1976 IMF crisis the big trends made it possible…

Lewis Cocking: Under Kemi Badenoch Conservatives are fighting for aspirational working class voters

In Birmingham, Kemi showed that the Conservative Party can again be the party for ordinary hard-working people. For too long, immigration has been out of control, and the benefits bill has ballooned higher and higher to…

Sarah Garcia de Bustos: Traditional Conservative principles are part of everyday life in Lancashire

A former journalist, she has worked in education for twenty years. She is Deputy Chairman (Political) of Cheadle Conservatives and constituency officer for Manchester Withington. Lancashire folk don’t make a fuss. We get…

‘Delivering growth in every postcode relies on good logistics’

They work in the logistics roles that keep our country and economy moving. Put simply, nothing moves without logistics, and so nothing moves without constituents like mine in North Warwickshire and Bedworth. This matters…

‘In a budget of winners and losers, Labour must not let schools come last’

And the numbers are sobering. Schools in England have £4.5 billion less in funding than they did in 2010 . 74% of schools across the country have seen cuts, and over 3,000 of those schools have lost more than £1,000 for…

Budget 2026: What MPs, union leaders and think tanks want to see from Healey

Ahead of his address to Parliament tomorrow, MPs, trade union leaders and think tanks have set out their priorities, ranging from action on tackling the cost of living to investment to deliver on promises of…

Delivering in local government: How Labour is building a better Britain everywhere

Week in, week out, Labour councils, working in partnership with the NHS, Homes England and the Labour Government, are getting things done for their local communities on the things that matter to local people. Every week…

Inside von der Leyen’s Commission shake-up

Then, after Aleksandar Vučić’s defeat in Serbia, Zoya Sheftalovich and Nick Vinocur ask whether a new government can revive the country’s stalled EU path — and whether Brussels has some lessons to learn. Plus, tobacco…