From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Angela Rayner wanted to force middle-class families to lose child benefit in a bid to avoid welfare cuts for the disabled and a squeeze on public spending, a leaked memo has revealed. The deputy ...

Angela Rayner has encouraged Rachel Reeves to strip middle-class families of child benefits payments, it has been claimed. The Labour Deputy Prime Minister urged the treasury to 'claw back' the ...

Angela Rayner told Rachel Reeves to embark on a "punitive" pension raid which would hike taxes on elderly Britons, the full leak of her controversial "secret memo" has revealed. The Deputy Prime ...

The revelation that Angela Rayner sent a secret memo to Rachel Reeves pressing for tax rises instead of spending cuts has triggered a firestorm in Westminster. Here, The Telegraph publishes the ...

Angela Rayner is being positioned as a "credible" alternative to Sir Keir Starmer as the Prime Minister faces concerns about a backlash from his own backbenchers. Allies of the Deputy Prime Minister ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

We examine the causal effect of health insurance on mortality using the universe of low-income adults, a dataset of 37 million individuals identified by linking the 2010 Census to administrative tax ...

In a sleepy town on the edge of Hertfordshire, a revolt is brewing to protect prized green space from a slew of major developments. The uprising came together in a packed church hall meeting last ...

Angela Rayner wanted cuts to the benefits migrants can claim as an alternative to Labour’s plans to cut the welfare budget for thousands of disabled people, a leaked memo suggests. In what ...

Leaving school pregnant at 16 and working her way through social care and the union movement shows Rayner’s unrivalled grit (Photo: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing/Getty) Angela Rayner is ...