The landmark US-UK trade deal is "in danger of going off the rails" warn US trade officials. The Brits say they won't be "steamrollered" on the details

Exclusive: Rachel Reeves is preparing to give more than a million low-paid workers a pay rise in the budget The Times has been told that the chancellor is likely to confirm a rise in the national living wage of about 4 per cent, from £12.21 to at least £12.70, in an effort to

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Lots of developments on the collapse of the China spy trial this afternoon: * Matt Collins, the Deputy National Security Adviser, deleted a description of China as an enemy from a statement drafted on his behalf by officials * He says that his statement was subsequently sent to

Essential point by @Steven_Swinford - as legal experts such as @ProfMarkElliott have been saying for weeks, the PM's claim that the case hinged on the previous government's **policy position** is simply incorrect. The deputy NSA was at liberty to describe - in fact, he was

The Director of Public Prosecutions has now directly contradicted Sir Keir Starmer over the collapse of the China spy trial. He's rebuked him in the process Starmer has repeatedly told the Commons that Matt Collins, the Deputy National Security Adviser, declined to describe

Once upon a time, people were cancelled for crimes. Now, it takes a single tweet. In CANCELLED, @toadmeister and @danwootton break down how the bar for cancellation keeps sinking, and what that means for free speech. Watch the full documentary on Tousi TV+

Breaking: Matt Collins, the Deputy National Security Adviser, told the CPS that he would accept that China was **not** an enemy 'in the ordinary meaning of the word' if pressed in court during China spy trial This goes further than the previous position, which was that Collins

Jonathan Powell’s statement on the China spy case collapse (just released) contains two key revelations. 1/ The first draft witness statement from the deputy national security adviser did initially call China an ‘enemy’ and it was taken out… but that happened under the **Tory

As @benrileysmith points out, there are significant questions for the CPS to answer here The CPS was aware before it decided to prosecute that Matt Collins, the Deputy National Security Adviser, was unwilling to describe China as an enemy, but pressed ahead anyway It then went

Breaking: The Deputy National Security Adviser Matt Collins elected to remove a reference to China as an 'enemy' in his evidence to prosecutors ahead of the China spy trial, ultimately resulting in its collapse Officials referred to China as an enemy in the draft of his

EXCL: After a two-year legal battle, @GeorgeGreenwood has finally forced the Home Office to publish an extraordinarily damning report into the internal workings of the department. There's so much in this piece but it tells a story of a department that is dysfunctional, detached

Shabana Mahmood has admitted the Home Office is “not yet fit for purpose” after a secret report found it was dysfunctional, detached from reality and beset by a “culture of defeatism” on immigration. The department spent two years blocking my FOI. https://t.co/WQXDHsuKuL

Here's the section of the Timothy report on 'listening circles' at the Home Office and the culture of 'bringing your whole self to work' 'Too much time is wasted on what one official called the fashion of 'bringing your whole self to work' 'There are 'listening circles', in

EXCLUSIVE from @GeorgeGreenwood Shabana Mahmood has admitted the Home Office is 'not yet fit for purpose' after a secret report found it was dysfunctional, detached from reality and beset by a 'culture of defeatism' on immigration The home secretary said the department had

Big exclusive tonight from @patrickkmaguire and @Gabriel_Pogrund Britain’s most senior civil servant is expected to be ousted within months after losing the confidence of senior figures in Downing Street No 10 and Whitehall sources have told The Times that Sir Chris Wormald,

This week's scoop-packed edition of The State of It, the political podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times with the brilliant @cazjwheeler @patrickkmaguire @Gabriel_Pogrund    * Rachel Reeves will launch a £2 billion tax raid on lawyers, family doctors and accountants as she

EXCL w/@patrickkmaguire Cabinet secretary Chris Wormald has “lost confidence” of key No10 figures Louise Casey tipped to replace him as soon as January https://t.co/oPRQqH7pcN

Exclusive: Reform UK is investigating whether it underpaid VAT after tax experts said it may have breached the law and could face a fine from HMRC. A Times investigation, with @GeorgeGreenwood https://t.co/Ycr8sXYfw5

EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Reeves will launch a £2 billion tax raid on lawyers, family doctors and accountants as she seeks to balance the books by targeting the wealthy The chancellor is expected to use the budget to impose a new charge on people who use limited liability partnerships

This morning Robert Jenrick said Prince Andrew had embarrassed the royal family and should leave Royal Lodge He said the public are 'sick' of him and that it was 'about time' that the King's brother 'took himself off to live in private' That is not the Tory line or Kemi

Exclusive from @Geri_E_L_Scott and @matt_dathan The Home Secretary has told Europe's human rights that questioning the validity of the Supreme Court's trans ruling is 'unacceptable Shabana Mahmood accused Michael O’Flaherty, the Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner,