Politics

Group Risk Development (Grid) has called on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to include services available through workplace health and risk benefits in its new Support for Employee Health and...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced a significant increase in income tax by cutting the threshold for the highest rate of tax and freezing other thresholds. Presenting the Autumn Statement to Parliament, Hunt...

Helen Whately has returned to the Department for Health and Social Care as a health minister. Whately (pictured) was appointed minister for care just before the pandemic in February 2020 and left...

Steve Barclay (pictured) is once again health and social care secretary, succeeding Thérèse Coffey who held the role for little more than a month under the disaterous leadership of Liz Truss. Mel...

Protection and health insurance advisers have raised hopes Rishi Sunak's appointment as prime minister will reassure markets and in turn have a positive impact on their sectors. Sunak was appointed PM earlier...

Rishi Sunak will be the next prime minister of the UK. Sunak (pictured) stepped down as chancellor over the summer precipitating a chain of events which led to the resignation of then...

Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister and leader of the Conservative party after just 44 days in office – the shortest term on record at Westminster. A Conservative party leadership election...

Besieged Conservative prime minister Liz Truss has completed the second u-turn from last month’s mini budget by reinstating the increase to Corporation Tax from April. The move was announced within hours of...

Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt (pictured left) has succeeded Kwasi Kwarteng (pictured right) as chancellor of the exchequer. Hunt is the Conservative government's fourth chancellor this year - he follows Rishi Sunak,...

The Conservative government has been told it must tackle the worsening staffing crisis within the NHS in England as the number of people waiting for treatment broke the seven million barrier. Furthermore,...