NewsMovesMarketsForex
Catch the latest Financial News EventsAll this talk about ‘difficult’ cuts, yet the largest part of Britain’s welfare bill is never mentioned. Why? | Zoe Williams
Pensioners vote and young people don’t, so the truism goes. That’s no longer any reason to avoid dealing with the triple lockNothing makes you feel more like a de-developing nation than being reprimanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Rachel Reeves can take...
Net migration into UK almost halved in 2025, official figures show – politics live
Office for National Statistics says figure of 171,000 in year to December 2025 was the lowest since 2021The Conservatives are saying non-EU immigration remains “far too high”. This is what Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, is saying in his response to the net...
‘I knew everyone here’: the tower block with 164 boarded-up homes – and a few residents who just won’t leave
Lund Point in east London was once ‘a beautiful community’, according to Tee Fabikun, who has lived there since 1997. Now just four flats are occupied. Why are Fabikun and her friends hanging on? And what happened to the long-promised redevelopment?Tee Fabikun is...
Hard hats, AI and a fake pandemic: the group of former world leaders practising to save the world
A group set up by Nelson Mandela known as the Elders met in Kenya to model a health emergency – and found much still needs to be done, as the subsequent Ebola outbreak has shownAbout a dozen people sat around a boardroom table at the emergency hub of the World Health...