Category: Politics

Network Rail will set up a new property company to build 40,000 homes on its rail estate over the next decade in a drive to meet the government’s housing target. The Treasury…

👉 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app 👈 Chancellor Rachel Reeves has set out her plans for the UK economy during her spring statement in the House of Commons….

It might not have been a budget, but the spring statement felt like one. There was red pen all over the chancellor’s economic plans as Rachel Reeves sought to repair deteriorating public…

Rachel Reeves has delivered her much anticipated spring statement today. The chancellor’s statement is not a formal budget – as Labour pledged to only deliver one per year – but rather an…

Kenny MacAskill has pledged to deliver Alex Salmond’s “dream of independence” for Scotland after being elected as the new leader of the Alba Party. Former first minister Mr Salmond founded the party…

A minister has denied Labour is a “centre right” government following cuts to disability benefits and foreign aid. Luke Pollard told Sky News Breakfast with Wilfred Frost that welfare reforms announced this…

Senior members of Reform UK are embroiled in a bitter row – with one of its MPs being suspended from the party. Rupert Lowe, the Reform MP for Great Yarmouth, lost the…

Teenagers are routinely seeing inappropriate violent or sexual content, “doom-scrolling” and being contacted by strangers online, according to an exclusive survey for Sky News. More than 1,000 young people aged 14 to…

Beth Rigby breaks down spring statement

The Office for Budget Responsibility has halved the UK growth forecast for 2025 from 2% to 1%, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said. However, the fiscal watchdog said that while growth has been…