The main tax rise in the Budget last month was a change to employers’ national insurance (NI) contributions, which is expected to raise more than £25 billion for the Treasury. A poll – of 1,007 senior ...

Taoiseach Simon Harris will ask President of Ireland Michael D Higgins to dissolve the Parliament ahead of a polling date on Friday November 29.

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In this exclusive Q&A session, The Independent’s political commentator Andrew Grice addresses key dynamics in the Tory ...

IT was cobbled together in a panic-stricken rush back in 1991 by millionaire Tory MP Michael Heseltine as a replacement for the doomed poll tax ...