“Around 500 claims each year will be impacted and farm-owning couples can pass on up to £3 million without paying any inheritance tax. “This is a fair and balanced approach that protects the family ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said that the most recent growth figures are “not good enough” as he said he wanted “better” results than those seen last week. Numbers released last Friday by the ...

The Government’s change to inheritance tax relief on farming businesses was “the straw that broke the camel’s back”, the president of the National Farmer’s Union will tell members.

A new Armed Forces watchdog will be a “powerful independent voice” for service men and women, Defence Secretary John Healey has said. The Armed Forces Commissioner Bill will establish the Armed Forces ...

Farmers protesting changes to inheritance tax should be “peaceful” and “passionate,” the head of the National Farmers’ Union said as he confirmed the demonstrations would “definitely” go ahead after ...

The Business Secretary also suggested Britain would be unlikely to simply ‘replicate’ Washington’s stance towards China on trade.

An Israeli airstrike hit a densely populated residential area in Lebanon’s capital close to the UN headquarters, parliament, the prime minister’s office and several embassies. Lebanon’s state-run ...

An 81-year-old man has been charged with murder after a woman died following serious injuries in south-east London. Brian James, of Dunwich Road, Bexleyheath, is due to appear at the Old Bailey on ...

Stormont’s former health minister Robin Swann has admitted that decisions he made during the Covid pandemic continue to “weigh heavily” upon him. Mr Swann also told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that he did ...

Mr Swann told the UK Covid-19 Inquiry that he believed it would have been ‘unethical and unnecessary’ to deploy the orders based on age ...

An MP has said it is “mystifying” why files on the bombing of the Navy support ship Sir Galahad during the Falklands War have still not been released. Defence minister Al Carns said the Ministry of ...