A British bank that escaped prosecution for money laundering carried out billions of dollars of transactions for funders of terrorist groups, US court papers allege. Standard Chartered, one of the UK’s largest banks, avoided prosecution by the US Department of Justice after Lord Cameron’s government intervened on its behalf in 2012. New documents filed to

The chancellor is considering cutting inheritance and business taxes in next week’s Autumn Statement, we have been told. It is thought Jeremy Hunt’s decision will depend on the latest predictions from the UK’s main economic forecaster. A Treasury source said no final decisions had been made, but Mr Hunt refused to rule it out in