The Independent UK Politics

Reeves plans billions in benefits and other spending cuts

Archie Mitchell — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 10:39:39 GMT

Treasury sources warn ‘world has changed’ since chancellor’s Budget as more cuts loom

Trump’s tariffs will harm UK and lead to higher inflation, admits Rachel Reeves

Kate Devlin — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 10:29:36 GMT

US president facing retaliation from Canada and China after imposing long threatened tax on goods amid fears of a global trade war

Ban criminals from pubs and sports games instead of sending them to prison, minister suggests

Archie Mitchell — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 08:44:47 GMT

The courts minister confirmed ministers will look at banning criminals from sports games, pubs and social events in a bid to free up prison spaces

Zelensky cracks under Trump pressure after US president axes aid to Ukraine

Sam Kiley — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:24:57 GMT

Volodymyr Zelensky said he is ready to enter peace talks under Donald Trump’s leadership, just hours after the US announced it was stopping all military aid to Ukraine

Starmer faces growing concerns from MPs over ‘brutal’ cuts to foreign aid budget

Caitlin Doherty — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 23:57:58 GMT

Sir Keir Starmer is facing increasing pressure from MPs over his decision to cut the overseas aid budget to fund an increase in defence spending

BBC director general Tim Davie doesn’t rule out reairing controversial Gaza documentary

Millie Cooke — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:33:58 GMT

The BBC previously said it had ‘no plans to broadcast the programme again in its current form or return it to iPlayer’

Kosovo's prime minister again refuses to testify at prosecutor's office for a corruption case

Via AP news wire — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:28:00 GMT

Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti has again refused to report to the Special Prosecutor’s Office that had summoned him as a witness in an alleged corruption case of state reserves

DWP warned over new powers to spy on ‘everybody’s bank accounts’

Albert Toth — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:50:14 GMT

‘It is not just benefits claimants who will be targeted,’ MPs told

Tory MP claims Labour inheritance tax making families consider if they can afford elderly relatives to live past April 2026

Camille Chorley — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:19:58 GMT

Families up and down the country are discussing whether they can afford for elderly relatives to live beyond April 2026, the Conservatives' shadow environment secretary has claimed.

Iraq veteran MP condemns JD Vance over claim Britain ‘hasn’t fought a war in 40 years’

Archie Mitchell,Millie Cooke and Kate Devlin — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:39:38 GMT

Keir Starmer hit back as vice president accused of ‘erasing experience’ of UK armed forces personnel who served alongside US in Iraq and Afghanistan

Tory MP attempts to gag criticism of assisted dying committee after Down Syndrome vote

David Maddox — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:18:57 GMT

Tory MP Kit Malthouse made a dramatic point of order after a majority voted down an amendment to protect people with Down Syndrome by 13 to 8

Starmer provokes diplomatic row by refusing to back Canada against Trump’s 51st state plan

David Maddox and Kate Devlin — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:08:18 GMT

Row erupts after The Independent’s White House correspondent challenges Trump and Starmer over the plan to turn Canada into the 51st state

Corbyn calls for Chilcot-style inquiry into UK’s role in Gaza war

Archie Mitchell — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:21:19 GMT

Jeremy Corbyn has written to Sir Keir Starmer demanding an independent inquiry into the UK’s role in the conflict in the Middle East

Trump has caught Starmer out again – and exposed three major flaws in PM’s US plan

David Maddox — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:07:53 GMT

Political editor David Maddox, who watched on in the Oval Office as Starmer met Trump, examines how the prime minister needs to adapt his approach to the special relationship to deal with the volatility of the US president