UK trails Poland and Bulgaria on adults educated to A-level standard Lecturers’ union says European data shows Britain risks languishing in ‘mid-table obscurity’ due to rising cost of learning We should therefore reduce the cost of learning by paying lecturers less and having fewer of them. There, job done. Not quite what I’d expect the

The Treasury wants an inquiry into how widespread is the practice of paying salaries in the public sector to private companies

Hartnett wants the citizenry to stop giving cash to their cleaners, gardeners, and to small tradesmen and other potential tax cheats and economic criminals so that they can no longer avoid paying taxes. Hartnett’s vision of Britain is a society of snoops and denunciators. “Households have a duty to ensure that other people do not evade paying their share of tax. The people who ...

Telegraph View: David Cameron should set out a powerful Conservative case for smaller government and low taxes.

Andy Burnham MP, Labour's Shadow Health Secretary, in response to a 20% increase in the number of cancelled urgent operations, said:

As negotiations over the EU’s 2014-2020 budget move forward, the Danish EU presidency is being criticised in Parliament for paying little attention to regional policy in Europe's future financial framework. More »

People who pay tradesmen cash in hand are "diddling" the economy and diverting money from hospitals and schools, the country's most senior taxman warns in an interview with The Telegraph.

Young people looking for work can find it just as hard to get work experience - and some employers want paying to pass on their tricks of the trade.

The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announces his plans for the coalition government to go "further and faster" in raising the pay level at which people start paying income tax to £10,000 a year.

Nick Clegg says he wants the coalition government to go "further and faster" in raising the pay level at which people start paying income tax.