UNITED KINGDOM

Chancellor to tell party she is making steep cuts to avoid similar fallout to that which followed 2022 mini-budgetRachel Reeves will raise the spectre of Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget in the lead-up to next week’s spring statement as she tries to persuade her Labour colleagues to accept the steepest departmental cuts since austerity.The chancellor will tell her fractious party she has decided to cut public spending rather than increasing borrowing because of the risk of a similar fallout to that which followed the then prime minister’s disastrous fiscal statement in 2022. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/21/rachel-reeves-raise-spectre-liz-truss-persuade-labour-mps-accept-cuts Author : Kiran

Thousands of troops needed to support Ukraine if ceasefire or agreement reached to end war with RussiaThe UK is to “accelerate the pace and scale” of military planning to be ready to support Ukraine next week, with No 10 saying all options including troops on the ground are still possible.Keir Starmer’s spokesperson said thousands of troops will be necessary to support Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire and agreement to end the war with Russia, whether by “sea, on land or in the air”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/21/uk-military-ukraine-russia-war Author : Rowena Mason Whitehall editor Publish date :

President announces F-47 jets, telling reporters it has state-of-the-art stealth technology and is the most powerful jet of its kindIn Tempe on Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez praised Arizona voters for electing two Democratic senators. She then swiped at the state’s former one-term senator, Kyrsten Sinema, who left the Democratic party to become an independent while in office and declined to seek re-election. “One thing I love about Arizonans is that you all have shown that if a US Senator isn’t fighting hard enough for you, you’re not afraid to replace her with one who will,” Ocasio-Cortez said. Sinema recently resurfaced old comments