Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones said £6 billion a year would go to repairing hospitals and £3 billion to schools and colleges.

Tributes have been paid to Slane Castle’s Lord Henry Mount Charles, who has died aged 74. He died late on Wednesday after “a long and valiant” battle with cancer, his family said. Since 1981, the ...

A terminally ill Christian preacher has criticised the “nonsensical” religious argument against assisted dying that suffering must be part of life, as Dame Esther Rantzen urged MPs to pass a Bill she ...

Corporation tax accounts for nearly half of Britain’s £46.8 billion tax gap amid a rise in non-compliance from small businesses, according to the latest figures from HM Revenue & Customs.