Vote Leave left 'red-faced' after damning IFS think-tank once hailed as 'fantastic', 'fair' and 'independent'

The Labour leader is using a speech in Manchester to set out eye-catching policies to improve family finances, while promising to get the nation's finances back on track

The Institute or Fiscal Studies says Labour will increase welfare spending and will not raise revenue they hope from higher taxes, while Tories have failed to spell out £12bn of welfare cuts

Blow for Balls as 50p tax rate would make no difference to Britain’s debts

By George F Bishop, Stephen T Mockabee. Understanding the Meaning of the “Mood of the Country”

Nadhim Zahawi says the country is coming together over Brexit. James O'Brien wants some evidence...

The "Tory 1st Battalion" was meant to raise the Conservatives' Twitter game, but then it turned on its own leadership over Chequers.

The new report by the GOP-run intelligence committee undercuts criticisms by some Trump supporters that the assessment overstated Russia's activities.

Last June, the Economist ran this chart: “Lies, Damned Lies, and Directives,” which documents decades of flat-out lies about EU regulations that were published in the tabloid press (man…

The Tory party is about to foist a tasteless joke upon the British people. He cares for nothing but his own fame and gratification, says the former editor of the Daily Telegraph Max Hastings

On the day The Sun officially came out in favour of Brexit, our research from reveals which side of the fence the national press are really sitting on.

Leading political journalists John Pienaar, Beth Rigby and Steve Richards discussed the experience of and fall-out from coverage of the EU Referendum, as well as the US elections, in a debate at...

Boris Johnson earns £275,000 a year for his weekly column at The Daily Telegraph, the same rate he enjoyed in 2016 when he resigned from the newspaper after his appointment as foreign secretary.  The

Boris Johnson has told friends his minister’s salary of £141,405 a year is not enough to live on, according to reports. The Foreign Secretary told friends his annual earnings were insufficient

In the early 20th century, science was sufficiently sophisticated to anticipate that influenza, which had twice reached pandemic proportions in the late 19th century, would recur, but was largely...

£325m wiped off value of health department’s emergency stockpile including PPE

First UK influenza pandemic contingency plan, published in 2005, made no mention of personal protective equipment

Bank of England secretly plugged a multi-million-pound hole in Britain's finances during World War I, covering up the failure of one of the country's apparent patriotic triumphs

Dominic Raab's been criticised for his comments on Boris Johnson's coronavirus, but is this fair?

With more than a million coronavirus cases confirmed worldwide, an analysis of the world in lockdown.

They have been successfully used against pandemics, terror, and technological disasters. What are the costs?.Thanks to tools like lockdowns confinement and isolation, lives have been saved in recent...

New coronavirus distancing measures still not as stringent as some others around the world

31 Dec 2019China reported a cluster of cases of in Wuhan, Hubei Province. A novel coronavirus was eventually identified.1 January 2020WHO had set up the IMST (Incident Management Support Team) across...

The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo, saw the rescue of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and other allied soldiers from the French seaport of Dunkirk. By 4 June 1940, nearly...

Ministers and public health officials face growing pressure to explain why Britain is struggling to match its European neighbour