Rates for phone, broadband and water will increase from Monday and other rises are in the pipelineConsumers are braced for huge rises in their household bills on everything from water to broadband, as the cost of living crisis...
Read MoreCuts to central funding leaves lower tier of local government left to look after libraries, street cleaning and other facilitiesParish and town councils will spend almost £800m in the next financial year after increasing...
Read MoreDebt Management Office figures show lasting impact of mini-budget that spooked financial markets, says Labour’s Angela Rayner Cash-strapped local authorities across the UK took out massive 50-year loans at soaring rates of...
Read MorePrime minister’s comments ‘remarkable’ given government cuts to town hall funding in England, say LGA bossesCouncil leaders in England have criticised Rishi Sunak for demanding that local authorities show...
Read MoreMichael Gove approves exceptional rise for UK’s biggest local authority, affecting 1m people, and three other bankrupt councilsCouncil tax in Birmingham is likely to increase by up to 10% after the government allowed the...
Read MoreCross-party committee also recommends overhaul of ‘outdated and regressive’ council taxMinisters must urgently inject £4bn into English town hall budgets to head off an “out of control” financial...
Read MoreExclusive: maximum possible 4.99% increases expected in April while PM plans pre-election cuts to taxes on incomeHow a decade of austerity has squeezed council budgets‘I’m scared for the city’: Nottingham faces...
Read MoreNigel Farage does not appear at Reform UK press conference as Richard Tice says ‘a good poker player does not show his hand early’Vaughan Gething, economy minister in the Welsh Labour government and favourite in the...
Read MoreNigel Farage fails to make appearance at Reform UK press conference as leader of party says ‘a good poker player does not show his hand early’Vaughan Gething, economy minister in the Welsh Labour government and...
Read MoreFormer home secretary tells PM he broke promises he made to gain her support during party leadership contest Rishi Sunak took something of a risk when he decided to sack Suella Braverman. Her hardline, anti-immigration rhetoric...
Read MoreFormer home secretary tells PM he broke promises he made to gain her support during party leadership contest Rishi Sunak took something of a risk when he decided to sack Suella Braverman. Her hardline, anti-immigration rhetoric...
Read MoreFormer home secretary tells PM he needs to ‘change course urgently’ and that he has led ‘Conservatives to record election defeats’Rishi Sunak took something of a risk when he decided to sack Suella...
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