HISTORICAL FACTS: 11 | History Defined

Murray asks who Scots voters ‘trust to spend’ £9.1bn rise in funding

The Scottish Secretary was speaking after Chancellor Rachel Reeves laid out her spending plans for the next three years.

Evening Standard · Jun 11, 2025

Whitehall on lockdown while police investigate ‘abandoned vehicle’ near Downing Street

Officers are investigating after a vehicle was abandoned near Downing Street

The Independent UK · Jun 11, 2025

Home Office may be forced to cut police numbers as result of Treasury deal

Sources say cuts to force headcount remain ‘a possibility’ as Yvette Cooper last minister to reach spending agreement

The Guardian - UK · Jun 9, 2025

Dominic Cummings predicts Kemi Badenoch’s downfall as Tory leader: ‘She’s a goner’

Dominic Cummings described the Conservative Party leader as a ‘goner’

The Independent UK · May 28, 2025

Nigel Farage could 'definitely' become Prime Minister in 2029 in Reform UK surge, says Dominic Cummings

But the mastermind behind the Brexit campaign says Reform must become more than ‘Nigel and an iPhone’

Evening Standard · May 28, 2025

Post Office campaigner’s proposal for independent compensation body being ‘worked on’

Exclusive: Whitehall sources say model in early planning after criticism of schemes to redress victims of scandals

The Guardian - UK · May 26, 2025

Officials probe possible Russian link to Starmer arson attacks in north London

Senior Whitehall figures want to know whether Moscow could have recruited three Ukrainian-born men

Evening Standard · May 24, 2025

OPINION - London faces major headwinds — and that's why it's time to give the Mayor far-reaching powers

London faces global economic headwinds arising from the Trump presidency and Brexit, alongside pressures such as a rapidly rising population, now more than nine million, in need of additional housing and public services.

Evening Standard · May 24, 2025

MPs say Government is ‘oblivious’ to the scale of violence against women

A report by a cross-party committee calls for improved cross-department working amid concerns about access to underfunded support services.

Evening Standard · May 15, 2025

Move civil servants out of London: fine. But that won’t curb Whitehall’s grip on Britain

It matters less where civil servants work than who they work for – and that is one of the most centralised governments of any western democracy, says Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK · May 15, 2025