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James Cleverly contends that the road to recovery does not run through a combative or muscular mode of conservatism.

Ed Davey will reiterate his pledge to “finish the job” of defeating Conservative MPs in his first conference speech since the Liberal Democrats' historic success in July's general election on Tuesday.

Diane Abbott has accused Keir Starmer of treating her like a “non-person” during the row over comments made by a Conservative Party donor.

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As ever, I'm slightly late — after all the north of Scotland is very far away from sunny Brighton.

Ex-Tory prime minister Sir John Major has called the former government's Rwanda deportation plan “un-Conservative and un-British”.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) is warning that the spectre of another ‘side hustle' tax controversy looms as online platforms like eBay, Vinted and Deliveroo start sending reports to HMRC on the income of their sellers in January.

Commenting on today's data from the Office for National Statistics, that showed the annual rate of CPI inflation holding at 2.2% in August 2024, Anna Leach, Chief Economist at the Institute of Directors, said:

Responding to the figures, which show headline inflation unchanged at 2.2% and food inflation falling 0.2 percentage points to 1.3%, Kris Hamer, Director of Insight of the British Retail Consortium, said:

Ed Davey has unveiled the new Liberal Democrat frontbench, as he pledges to “hold the new government to account as a responsible opposition.”