Labour’s pledge not to raise taxes on ‘working people’ leaves the chancellor with a limited number of workable options to fill the £5bn hole in the public finances left by this week’s welfare climbdown
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Radical plans to improve community healthcare include training more GPs
Annoyed Clacton resident tells Farage he’s ignoring town – before Reform leader forgets his name
Watch as Nigel Farage is grilled by his constituent for not being active in Clacton, before then forgetting his name.
Police search for gunman after woman seriously injured in Dudley shooting
Two shots were fired at a home on Priory Road in the market town of Dudley
Oona the puffin found in Hereford garden after being blown 100 miles from seaside nest
The bird is now thriving under the care of vets since she was first found weak and underweight
Three young children die in hot cars in four days after being left alone
Youngsters aged nine, four and just three months old perish in overheated vehicles in Texas over the course of four days amid sweltering heat
Restaurants could be forced to report customer calorie counts to help combat obesity
Hospitality bosses claimed they were ‘totally blindsided’ by the plans and said they would lead to increased costs
Passengers left ‘critically injured’ after skydiving plane carrying 15 crashes near New Jersey airport
Passengers on board the downed Cessna 208B near Cross Keys Airport in Williamstown were doused in jet fuel and triaged by trauma surgeons
Farage claims ‘well-known’ figures want to join Reform UK cabinet
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said it was ‘nonsense’ that ministers ‘must all be politicians in the House of Commons’.
Democrats who haven’t endorsed Zohran Mamdani offer muted defense as Trump targets him
Jerry Nadler, one of the few who has endorsed Mamdani, tells The Independent ‘the president is out of his mind’