Latest PMQs comes as sources say chancellor is briefing ministers that £40bn will need to be found in the budget.   12:28 Shaun Davies (Lab) asks what the government is doing to reduce suicide rates amongst men.

Keir Starmer is pressed by Tory leader Rishi Sunak on China at PMQs ahead of the foreign secretary holding meetings in Beijing this week. Sunak asks the PM if David Lammy will con

But there are fears that steep spending cuts will also be needed to meet what Whitehall sources have suggested is a £40bn funding gap. In what some say is an unusual move, ministers from hard-pressed departments are calling for a last minute rethink of the Budget,

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on Wednesday joined forces with chancellor Rachel Reeves to face down a cabinet revolt over plans for “grim” curbs to public spending next year. Reeves has faced resistance from a number of ministers over her plan to rein in public spending in 2025-26,

Senior UK ministers have written to Prime Minister Keir Starmer expressing their alarm at the scale of spending cuts that their departments face in the country’s Oct. 30 budget, people familiar with the matter said.