A UK court ruled that two North Sea oil and gas fields must re-apply for environmental permits while allowing the developments to continue, setting up a crucial test of whether the new Labour ...

What didn’t Rachel Reeves say in her growth speech yesterday? The widely trailed address surveyed the wide expanse of the government’s economic programme — from the “difficult” decisions taken in the ...

The second time President Donald Trump put the US on the path to quit the Paris Agreement, defenders of the international climate order barely stirred in protest. European Commission President Ursula ...

Why is the prime minister spending so much of his time making decisions he doesn’t like? It’s not paying off with voters.

Critically for Labour, it would allow taxes to be raised without the national government being directly responsible. It would be local councils — often Conservative — who’d be responsible for ...

Rachel Reeves reached far and wide as she sought to revive the UK’s flagging economy with wind turbines, roads, airports, ...