The Government has to unravel a Gordian knot of economic and regulatory difficulties holding the industry back.

For more than a decade after it first aired in September 1979, it was Barbara Maxwell - dubbed the 'flame-haired temptress' by long-time host Robin Day - who decided what was what.

Or even worse, we could end up so truncated that we would be nothing more than the 51st state, without a vote.” In the ...

Compare this with the performance of children in SNP-run Scotland and Labour-run Wales, which stubbornly resisted every ...

The sustainable housing project visit marks the first time in decades a monarch was accompanied by the prime minister.

Then-prime minister Tony Blair, deputy Labour Party leader John Prescott and chancellor Gordon Brown at the Labour Party conference in 1998 (Owen Humphreys/PA) PA Wire As deputy prime minister ...

Prescott, who had been an amateur boxer during his days as a merchant seaman, turned down an instruction from Tony Blair to ...

Sir Keir Starmer has hailed John Prescott's "fighting spirit" ahead of the former deputy prime minister's funeral. Labour grandees, government ministers and MPs, prominent party supporters and ...

The Labour giant served as Sir Tony Blair’s deputy from 1997 to 2007. Paying tribute, Sir Tony told of how he “cheers” Lord Prescott when ... but I hope if John’s looking down on us ...

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A PAIR of black Jaguars lead the funeral procession of "Two Jags" John Prescott as tributes poured in for the former Deputy Prime Minister. Keir Starmer and Tony Blair led praise for the Labour ...

Former Prime Minister Sir Tony Blair has paid tribute to the "extraordinary" achievements of his Labour Party colleague Lord ...