UK visa revamp allows lower-skilled office workers to come to BritainNews Feed
Rules aimed at tightening regime will at first make provision for temporary shortages in non-graduate occupations
Rachel Reeves faces £5bn fiscal hole after welfare reform U-turnNews Feed
Chancellor is being pushed to bend her rules on borrowing to fund higher spending
Former ONS head was allowed to act ‘without check or balance’, says senior MPNews Feed
Committee probes UK Statistics Authority’s role in overseeing Sir Ian Diamond, who resigned as national statistician in May
Germany launches insurance crackdown on Russian ‘shadow fleet’News Feed
Berlin increases controls on vessels heading eastward through the Fehmarn strait
Building a big beautiful EuropeNews Feed
Can Europe finally unite its finances?
How the ‘rebel alliance’ took on Starmer over welfare — and wonNews Feed
Plans to cut £5bn from Britain’s spiralling benefits bill lie in tatters after U-turn
Starmer guts UK welfare reforms to avoid Commons defeatNews Feed
Government wins vote but watered down measures will leave a multibillion-pound hole in public finances
US banks announce big shareholder payouts as Fed eases stress testsNews Feed
Wall Street titans to raise dividends and buy back shares as investors reap reward of lighter oversight
Senate passes Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ tax and spending billNews Feed
Landmark legislation to extend tax cuts and reduce spending on healthcare now returns to the House
Labour may avoid defeat but it has lost the policy argumentNews Feed
Concessions spare political pain, though case for ‘reform’ was about meeting a fiscal rule rather than efficiency