June Spencer, who has died aged 105, became one of the best known voices on BBC radio as Peggy Woolley (née Perkins, formerly ...

June Spencer, who has died aged 105, was the last surviving original cast member of The Archers. For nearly 70 years, she ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to announce a boost in the defence budget later today, which will be backdated to April and ...

Ahead of Labour’s first budget in 14 years, Chancellor Rachel Reeves made a major change that has raised some eyebrows. In ...

Some of Clement Attlee’s rivalrous colleagues sought to oust him immediately after his 1945 election win. Within weeks of Tony Blair’s victory in 1997, Gordon Brown was demanding a date for ...

as president of the Board of Trade in the Attlee government, staged famous photo-ops to prove the zeal of his “bonfire of controls”. Every government vows to cut through “red tape” and—perhaps aware ...

So much then for Starmer’s claim that he was going to be as “bold as Clement Attlee”, the post-war Labour Prime Minister who established the NHS. Attlee had one advantage that Starmer lacks ...