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Nov 28, 2025 - World

Downing Street brushes off claims that the chancellor misled voters about the state of the public finances ahead of the budgetThe Office for Budget Responsibility has said that Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, was not at risk of breaking her fiscal rules because of its productivity forecast downgrade.In a highly unusual move, Richard Hughes, chair of the OBR, has sent a letter to the Commons Treasury committee, giving details of the five assessments it sent to the Treasury ahead of the budget estimating whether or not the fiscal rules would be met.Before any policy measures, Rachel Reeves was forecast to be running a small current budget surplus in her key year of 2029–30 and therefore meeting her fiscal rules. No fiscal repair job needed. Even after accounting for the U-turns on winter fuel payments and disability benefits since the spring, she was running only a very small deficit. Continue reading...

Nov 28, 2025 - World

Exclusive: London mayor says allegations about Reform leader had summoned memories of his own pastSadiq Khan has spoken of his dismay at Nigel Farage’s “desperate” denials of allegations of teenage racism as he described how his experience as a child shaped his life.The mayor of London said testimony from more than 20 individuals who made allegations about the Reform leader had summoned memories of his own past. Continue reading...

Nov 28, 2025 - World

Prosecutors cite ‘significant evidential developments’ in decision to end criminal case against Romanian boysProsecutors have dropped charges against two Romanian teenagers who were accused of raping a schoolgirl in Ballymena, an allegation that triggered race riots in Northern Ireland.The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) on Friday cited “significant evidential developments” in its decision to end criminal proceedings against the boys, aged 14 and 15. Continue reading...

Nov 28, 2025 - World

Charities express ‘deep disappointment’ as government advisers find harms of screening all men would outweigh benefitsProstate cancer screening should not be made available to the vast majority of men across the UK, a panel of expert government health advisers has said, to the “deep disappointment” of several charities and campaigners.The UK National Screening Committee (UKNSC) has instead recommended that there should be a targeted screening programme for men with a confirmed BRCA1 or BRCA2 faulty gene variant, which means they are more at risk of faster growing and aggressive cancers at an earlier age. Men in that category could be screened every two years between the ages of 45 and 61, they said. Continue reading...

Nov 28, 2025 - World

The foreign-born spouses of several US citizens have been detained during green card interviews, the US media has reported.