A senior Putin aide slapped down the US-Ukrainian plan for a 30-day ceasefire to halt fighting in the three-year war. Yuri Ushakov, 77, the Kremlin dictator's hardline international affairs guru ...

This weekend, Pat McFadden, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, announced that he is attempting to improve the performance of the civil service. I genuinely wish him luck, but I am not ...

To serve or not to serve? Pat McFadden, the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, has declared that the UK government has no plans to introduce conscription. Meanwhile, the President of Latvia, which ...

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Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden (Jeff Overs/BBC) PA Media Not all the countries interested in the plan would necessarily provide troops to a peacekeeping force, it is understood ...

On Sunday, Pat McFadden, minister for intergovernmental relations, said the rising costs of the benefits bill is "not fair on the taxpayer". Now five Scottish MPs have joined Labour colleagues in a ...

“The central civil service would and can become smaller,” Pat McFadden said in a BBC television interview on Sunday (Mar 9) ahead of major reforms of Whitehall that will be unveiled this week. He didn ...

Pat McFadden has said that nations have to “step forward themselves” if they want to be part of the group of nations willing to defend a peace deal in Ukraine. The UK and France have been ...

Cabinet minister Pat McFadden has insisted that he will “not take a chainsaw to the civil service” as fears grow of an Elon Musk-style cost-cutting exercise. The chancellor of the Duchy of ...

Watch: Pat McFadden says he wants more civil service workers to be based outside of London The Civil Service will be reformed under "radical" plans to be announced this week, Cabinet Office ...