The gap between rich and poor has grown faster in Britain than in any other developed country over recent decades, research suggests.

Public expenditure on learning will fall by 13% in real terms over the next four years

Including all forms of education and all types of spending, public expenditure on learning will fall by 13% in real terms over the next four years

Eurozone economic activity has contracted this month at the fastest pace for more than two years, according to a closely-watched survey

Former Bank of England economist Rachel Reeves is the fastest-rising star of Labour's intake of new MPs from last year's general election.

Ivan Lewis, the shadow culture secretary, was accused last night of making the "fastest U-turn in history" after abandoning a proposal to license journalists.

Fears of a pronounced European slowdown strengthen after a closely-watched survey shows economic confidence tumbling at the fastest rate since late 2008

Britain's unemployment rate rose to 7.9% and the number of people claiming unemployment benefits rose at the fastest monthly rate in two years

Last week, George Osborne boasted that Britain has the second-fastest job creation in the G7. It emerges today that all of the employment increase can be accounted for by foreign-born workers. We on Coffee House have often questioned Labour's record: 99 per cent of the rise in employment was accounted for by foreign-born workers. But we've just crunched the numbers from the first year of...

Britain's unemployment rate rose to 7.9% and the number of people claiming unemployment benefits rose at the fastest rate in 2 years