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Government U-turns on manifesto promise to give workers immediate unfair dismissal right

Rachel Reeves freezes income tax thresholds and ends two-child benefit cap

Minimum wage for 18 to 21-year-olds to go up 8.1%, but businesses concerned about costs

BBC chairman Samir Shah and members of BBC board scrutinised by MPs over alleged bias

Vladimir Putin says the White House plan can “form the basis of a final peace settlement”

UK response to Covid "too little, too late" inquiry into government decision-making says

We hear from a journalist on a reportedly new US-led plan for peace in Ukraine

Trump said Saudi crown prince ‘knew nothing’ about the murder of a journalist

Mahmood says system is "out of control" as she proposes making refugee status temporary