The Defence Secretary has told the country to prepare for a potential war by 2030. The Chancellor resigned from that same job in June because the Treasury would not commit to a date for 3 per cent of GDP. On Wednesday, John Healey must explain how the two positions can both be true.
Vicky Richter · 27 October 2026Workers would have two years less to recover overpaid National Insurance under an HMRC consultation that closed this month. It offers no proposed safeguard for claims already in time, no published estimate of who loses out, and no impact assessment. Ministers have made no decision yet, but the proposal is on the table.
Vicky Richter · 26 October 2026The Cabinet Office told households to keep three days of food, water and cash, then left the announcement to a website update. Great British PAC says sensible preparation matters, but a government asking families to ready themselves must show that it is ready too.
Vicky Richter · 23 October 2026The same flat, the same street, the same taxpayer. Southwark Council pays £1,790 a month to house a family in a three-bedroom property. Clearsprings Ready Homes reportedly offered the same landlord £4,500 a month, with bills, council tax and maintenance covered, to house asylum seekers there instead. The landlord turned it down rather than end his council agreement. Great British PAC says the case exposes a deeper problem: two publicly funded housing systems bidding against each other for the same limited stock, while the rates that govern the contest remain largely undisclosed.
Vicky Richter · 23 October 2026A Royal Marine who served in Afghanistan and Iraq believed he was drinking with a fellow veteran. According to Reform UK, the man across the table was an undercover television reporter with a hidden camera. Great British PAC condemns the alleged deception as a disgraceful exploitation of a veteran's trust and is demanding that ITV explain who authorised it.
Vicky Richter · 22 October 2026Britain's readiness is measured not by the equipment the Army buys but by whether its soldiers can deploy, fight and sustain operations under fire. As the Budget approaches, Great British PAC examines the cumulative effect of Labour's defence spending decisions on armoured capability, battlefield sustainability and the welfare of the people asked to do the fighting.
Vicky Richter · 21 October 2026Gas production at the Jackdaw field has been approved, 21 months after the Court of Session quashed the field's original consent and required a fresh environmental assessment. The government says the field will lift domestic gas production by around 6 per cent at peak, enough to heat the equivalent of 1.4 million homes. The Energy Secretary concedes it will not cut bills this winter, because the gas is sold into an international market. Great British PAC says the decision is welcome but overdue, and that British households and North Sea workers need a credible domestic energy strategy rather than another cycle of delay.
Vicky Richter · 21 October 2026The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that three planned Boxer variants, including the vehicle designed to recover damaged Boxers from the battlefield, are no longer being pursued, after the Government's projects watchdog recorded a reported £1.86bn reduction to the programme. With only 130 of 623 vehicles delivered so far, a former Army officer has warned that damaged vehicles risk being left "stranded in full view of the enemy". Great British PAC is demanding answers before Wednesday's Budget.
Vicky Richter · 20 October 2026Five elite soldiers arrested on suspicion of murder after a secret mission against Islamic State were back in combat within 48 hours and remained under investigation for three years before the inquiry ended without charges. Now the regiment's own association says the pursuit of soldiers in this way is draining the SAS of experienced men and threatening Britain's security, as ministers bring their Troubles Bill back to the Commons
Vicky Richter · 19 October 2026John Healey called Britain's banks the "jewel" in the economic crown on Thursday. Within hours, the City was braced for a tax raid. The Chancellor is reportedly preparing to raise the bank surcharge from 3pc to 8pc in his 28 October Budget to help fund pre-Budget giveaways. Banks warn the move could cost the economy up to £20bn over a decade. Great British PAC is concerned that a raid on the sector the Chancellor himself calls central to growth will not repair the public finances, and that the bill may land on the households and small firms that depend on bank lending.
Vicky Richter · 16 October 2026Labour is facing fierce criticism over its plans to overhaul Northern Ireland's Troubles legislation, amid warnings from former Army chiefs and a veterans commissioner that British servicemen could remain vulnerable to repeated investigations decades after risking their lives in the service of their country.
Vicky Richter · 14 October 2026Luke Pollard told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Centrica, the owner of British Gas, has "deep pockets" and that the future of the Rough facility is "a very clear commercial decision for the company". Centrica is seeking a cap-and-floor mechanism to unlock £2bn of investment in the North Sea site, which supplies about half of the UK's gas storage capacity. No formal decision has been taken, and the energy department has not published the full response to its consultation that would determine whether storage operators receive support.
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