The UK government is demanding answers from Gordon Brothers on why it rejected offers for struggling retailer Poundland Group Ltd, which began insolvency proceedings last week putting thousands of jobs at risk.

John Healey’s budget punted the biggest decisions facing Andy Burnham’s new UK government into the future, focusing instead on modest measures designed to help ordinary Britons and businesses weather the cost-of-living crunch..

Prime Minister Andy Burnham will set out proposals for the next stage of the UK’s rapprochement with the European Union around the time of next month’s summit with the bloc.

The UK set out plans for work placements in the professional services and construction sectors as ministers work to get a grip on the country’s youth unemployment crisis, which Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Monday called a “moral failure.”

Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s government disagrees with US President Donald Trump’s approach to sanctions on Russia, a key UK minister said, signaling a growing divergence between the allies over the Ukraine war.

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK cleared two senior party figures of breaking the law when discussing a potential £500,000 ($661,000) gift from an American donor.

The UK government is privately lobbying the Trump administration for an exemption from any potential US diesel export ban.

Palantir Technologies Inc. has hired Tom Watson, a former Labour deputy leader, as a new executive in the UK, where it faces a barrage of criticism threatening a major contract.

Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey will protect the poorest recipients of the basic state pension from income tax after wage data put the benefit on course to exceed the threshold for paying the levy next year.

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK received a second multi-million pound donation, bringing the total raised over the past 24 hours to £72 million ($97 million) and far surpassing the amounts raised by the rival Labour and Conservative parties so far this year.

BitMEX founder Ben Delo pledged £36 million ($48.7 million) to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, a record donation designed to help the insurgent party fend off its critics while turbo-charging its attempts to gain power at the next general election.

Delivering his first speech as UK prime minister in front of the famous black door of 10 Downing Street, Andy Burnham promised to bring forward “the biggest changes in the last 40 years” for Britain. Those changes started with his cabinet.

Andy Burnham is set to become the UK’s seventh prime minister in just over a decade with numerous outstanding questions about who will be in his cabinet and the policy direction he will pursue.

Nigel Farage intended his shock decision to quit Parliament and seek reelection in his coastal seat as a demonstration of political strength. But a man wearing a rubbish bin could end up showing the depth of antipathy to the Reform UK leader.

The UK’s governing Labour Party would win the most seats in a general election, according to the first detailed poll carried out since Keir Starmer cleared a path for Andy Burnham to succeed him as prime minister.

Andy Burnham ruled out calling a UK general election if he succeeds Keir Starmer as Britain’s prime minister.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer apologized to the victims of decades of forced adoptions in Britain’s post-war period, but stopped short of offering immediate compensation to affected mothers and their offspring.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer suggested there’s room in the next UK budget to absorb a £4.7 billion ($6.2 billion) gap in spending that was revealed in the country’s defense investment plan, published on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was confident his likely successor, Andy Burnham, would maintain the UK’s commitment to defense, as he laid out plans to invest an extra £15 billion ($20 billion) to modernize the British military.

Andy Burnham pledged to radically devolve fiscal powers away from Westminster and deliver “good growth” in every part of the UK if he succeeds in his bid to replace Keir Starmer as prime minister.