This is why Starmer’s recent reshuffle is doomed to fail Opinion Keir Starmer’s personnel switch-up is an attempt to get a firmer grip on his government’s economic policymaking. Helen Thomas lays out why it won’t work. Keir Starmer’s latest cabinet reshuffle was billed as a decisive break from his choppy first year in power. Yet this is less a bold national reset than a desperate rebrand. [...]
Rayner scandal piles pressure on HMRC as tax surveillance force swells Politics HMRC has increased the number of staff trained to physically monitor suspected tax evaders, as pressure mounts over Angela Rayner’s £40,000 stamp duty scandal. Official figures, obtained via Freedom of Information (FOI) and shared with CityAM, show that 337 staff are now trained in covert surveillance, up from 171 people two years ago, in [...]