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Asylum seekers will be housed in disused care homes and student digs under a Home Office plan to find 800 new accommodation sites and cut a bill that has risen to £8m a day.

Home Office sources have confirmed to the Guardian that the fundamental changes to asylum accommodation are …

Good morning. There are certain phrases in news stories about government, aren’t there, where your eyes glaze over like you’ve just wound down the window and asked someone for directions. Autumn statement; early day motion; fiscal rules; white paper; ping pong, weirdly. They’re definitely all very important, but it would …

Labour should build 12 new towns in England that are not car-dependent or built on flood plains, a former government adviser has said in a report.

A detailed plan for a dozen new towns, proposed by thinktanks Britain Remade and Create Streets, would mean 550,000 well-designed and appropriately located homes. …

Energy giant AGL promised to stop wrongly taking money from the welfare payments of ex-customers via Centrepay years before it inexplicably allowed the unlawful practice to continue, diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars from the pockets of vulnerable Australians over more than four years, a court has heard.

The federal …

The Northern Ireland assembly has voted to continue with the special Brexit trading arrangements for another four years.

It means Northern Ireland will

retain some EU trade laws

Mohammed bin Salman personally lobbied David Cameron earlier this year to intervene in the legal case of a London-based dissident who is suing the Saudi government, amid threats by its officials that the issue “could have implications” for £100bn of investment in the UK.

UK government documents obtained by the …

Several Range Rovers with blacked out windows pulled up outside the TV studios in Westminster. Out stepped Theresa May. Awkward. If she’d known her arrival was going to coincide with a Reform party photo call, she’d have probably asked the driver to go round the block again. Just in case …

Britain’s car finance scandal could end up being as big as the payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling saga, which cost UK banks £50bn, the City regulator’s top lawyer has admitted.

Stephen Braviner Roman, the Financial Conduct Authority’s general counsel and executive director in charge of legal affairs, said

When Andrew Kerr collapsed in his kitchen in 2022, his blood pressure was so high that even his wristwatch knew he was in trouble.

“They put a monitor on me to check because my [smart] watch started going off … saying [there was] a fibrillation or something,” the family man …

Vodafone “unjustly enriched” itself at the expense of scores of vulnerable small business owners by slashing commissions to franchisees running the mobile phone group’s high street stores, according to allegations filed on Tuesday in the high court.

A group of 62 of about 150 Vodafone franchise operators – some of …