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Voters say tackling soaring rents and mortgages is their key General Election priority. Our reporters spoke to more than 100 people about what the parties should do to fix Britain’s broken housing system. We quizzed dozens of struggling…

The cost of an average family shop has risen by almost £1,000 a year since the last General Election, startling new analysis revealed. Back in 2019 householders spent an average of £60 on food and non-alcoholic drinks per week - amounting…

Official figures showed the UK economy recorded no growth in April in another blow to Rishi Sunak's General Election campaign. It comes less than 24 hours after the PM again insisted the economy "has turned a corner" as he launched his…

Westminster is gripped with election fever today - waiting anxiously to find out whether Rishi Sunak is going to ruin everyone’s holidays and go to the polls this Summer. Rumours of an imminent election being called are nothing unusual.…

Multi-multi-millionaire Rishi Sunak lecturing hard-up folk that they’ll never have it so good with him is a haughty, out-of-touch Prime Minister reinforcing why the UK Conservatives deserve to lose the general election.Britain’s richest…

The UK has moved out of recession as the economy has grown by 0.6%, official figures show.The country had experienced two quarters of decline - which represents a technical recession - in the back half of 2023. Economists had predicted a…

Labour vowed yesterday to move swiftly to outlaw the type of blade used to kill schoolboy Daniel Anjorin as his grieving parents paid tribute to their “precious” boy and described the tragedy as “unthinkable”.A man wielding a samurai sword…

The UK is dealing with a “tidal wave” of pensioner poverty with virtually half of individuals aged 50 plus scared about retiring. If the Government fails to behave there's a big hazard of a pensioner poverty surge over the subsequent few…

Rishi Sunak’s guarantees to kickstart the economic system have been in tatters on Thursday as Britain plunged into recession. One of the PM’s 5 key pledges was to develop the economic system. But Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves blasted:…

The UK's inhabitants might rise by over 6.5million by 2036, estimates launched this morning present.Experts consider there may very well be 74million folks residing in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland in 12 years' time. This is…