The Railway Industry Association (RIA), the voice of the rail industry, has today submitted a number of recommendations on behalf of the rail supply industry to HM Treasury, on the day its consultation on the Spring Budget closes. The Spring Budget is due to be announced by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt on Wednesday 15 March.

Mass walkouts are set to take place across multiple sectors in February affecting the NHS, schools, rail services and more.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has called on people who retired early to reconsider joining the workplace, as he declared that “Britain needs you”.

The Leader of Kent County Council has warmly welcomed news its £45m bid to the government's Levelling Up Fund to improve traffic flow to the EU through the Port of Dover has been successful.

Today, former Energy Minister Chris Skidmore has published his Net Zero Review, outlining the opportunities offered by Net Zero.

The treasury does not plan to grant additional money to departments to fund public sector pay settlements, the possibility of which unions say are a condition of agreeing to negotiations that would end strikes, PoliticsHome understands.

Sadly, the government’s approach to the national rail dispute has so far been unhelpfully adversarial despite ongoing misery for commuters, businesses and the striking workers themselves.

Leaders from a range of unions are meeting cabinet ministers today to discuss their positions ahead of further planned strikes across the health, education, and transport sectors.

The government has confirmed plans for controversial anti-strike laws despite warnings from peers that plans "simply won't work" due to the likelihood of significant delays in Parliament and legal challenges from unions.

“The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life...we take our stand by these pillars of our British society as it has gradually developed and evolved itself, of the right of individual labouring men to adjust their wages and conditions by collective bargaining, including the right to strike...”

Rishi Sunak will insist that all pupils to study maths in some form until the age of 18 in a major new year speech setting out his priorities as Prime Minister, against a backdrop of strikes, crisis in the NHS and a soaring cost of living.

The chief executive of the NHS Confederation has warned that "further critical incidents” in the health service are likely to define the next three months as pressure on the NHS across the country continues to grow.

Nurses will go on strike again on 18 and 19 January, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has announced.

The Department for Transport has announced that regulated rail fares will increase by up to 5.9 per cent from March next year in England.

Cross-sector strikes are continuing today with National Highways workers walking out for four days until Christmas day.

With travel chaos becoming the new normal this festive season, Director of Policy and Advocacy at Which?, Rocio Concha, explains why the government should avoid weakening compensation rights for domestic flight passengers.

New polling suggests that stronger measures are needed to incentivise the public to adopt greener transport habits if we are serious about reaching net zero.

High Court judges have ruled that the government's policy to remove asylum seekers by deporting them to Rwanda is legal, more than six months after the first scheduled flight was grounded.

Mick Lynch, the general secretary of the RMT union, has called the pay deal on offer to rail staff “completely inadequate” after the Transport Salaried Staffs Association (TSSA) accepted the deal.

The most effective policies are those which offer as many options as possible, enabling innovation to find the best way forward.

The Bank of England has announced it is increasing the Bank Rate of inflation to 3.5 per cent from 3 per cent.

Around four million households on fixed-rate mortgages could see their payments increase by £3,000 across 2023, the Bank of England has warned.