Business leaders expressed frustration with ministers on Monday amid a growing budget backlash that bosses said would trigger an “avalanche of costs” and leave them with...
Two of Britain’s biggest food retailers will this week face pressure to publicly disclose whether they expect a fresh spike in prices next year as the...
The former Conservative chancellor Nadhim Zahawi is in talks to smooth the path to a takeover of The Daily Telegraph being led by the New York-based...
Hopes for consecutive interest rate cuts by the Bank of England over the next two months have been dampened by the UK government’s recent budget, economists...
There’s fear in some quarters of another Donald Trump presidency but will the economics be that bad? Not a single vote has been counted but the...
Navantia, the Spanish shipbuilder, is racing to finalise a takeover of the stricken shipyard-owner that built the Titanic amid urgent talks to reshape a major government...
The joint owner of Chelsea Football Club has joined forces with one of his fellow board members to bid for the most valuable team in English...
One of the world’s largest investment firms has waded into the fight over the future of Thames Water, the water utility which is racing to stay...
The business secretary will next week hold talks with dozens of private sector bosses as the government contends with a significant corporate backlash to Labour’s first...
The cost of government borrowing has jumped, while UK stocks and the pound are up, as markets digest the news of billions in borrowing and tax...
First things first: don’t panic. What you need to know is this. The budget has not gone down well in financial markets. Indeed, it’s gone down...
The football financier Keith Harris is spearheading a bid to buy a 45% stake in the Premier League football club Crystal Palace in a deal that...
The next five years will hurt disposable income and wages will stagnate further following Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget, an influential thinktank has said. Household disposable income,...
The chancellor cannot rule out more tax rises in the next five years, despite raising the burden to its highest level since comparable records began. Speaking...
The 2024 Autumn Budget in one word? Big. What we got from Rachel Reeves today was, in economic terms, a major departure from economic policy as...
Are you richer or poorer? Use our budget calculator to see how you have been affected by Labour’s first budget in more than 14 years, and...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has finally unveiled the budget for 2024. Here are the key points: This page is being updated, refresh to see more as it’s...
Budgets are all about numbers. In the coming 24 hours, we’ll be engulfed with all sorts of figures – about the state of the economy, about...
Small businesses have called for the government to “significantly increase” the employment allowance to prevent them from having to shut down following the budget. Chancellor Rachel...
The Labour manifesto never did add up. On the one hand, Keir Starmer vowed there would be “no return to austerity” under his government, while also...