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Catch the latest Financial News EventsReeves looking to break link between gas cost and electricity prices
Chancellor wants to reduce impact of gas on market prices, as it almost always sets price of electricity in UKThe chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has said she and Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, are looking at ways to break the link between the cost of electricity and...
Rachel Reeves warns other budgets may be cut to lift defence spending
Chancellor says she is ‘working through a range of options’ to boost the armed forces but does not want to put up taxesUK politics live – latest updatesRachel Reeves has warned “difficult choices” are required to increase defence spending and other budgets may have to...
Badenoch calls Farage an ‘opportunist’ after he urges Scottish nationalists to back Reform
Leader of Tories criticises Farage after he says holding another independence vote ‘probably quite reasonable’Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the Conservative party, has accused Nigel Farage of being an opportunist who does not believe in unionism after he urged Scottish...
Labour and Lib Dem MPs demand ‘shameful’ Palantir NHS contract be scrapped
The spytech company and founder Peter Thiel should ‘have their hands ripped off our NHS’, say MPs during impassioned Westminster debateMPs have queued up to demand the government scraps its £330m NHS contract with the spytech company Palantir, calling it “dreadful”...