The Bank of England has launched a temporary bond-buying programme as it takes emergency action to prevent “material risk” to UK financial stability. It revealed that...
The Bank of England’s dramatic intervention today was in response to a “run dynamic” emerging in the British pensions system which could have resulted in the...
This is an extraordinary moment. We’ll get to the details in a moment but before we do let’s not lose sight of the big picture. The...
Liz Truss is a “danger” to the economy and has “lost control” after the fallout from the government’s mini-budget, Sir Keir Starmer has told Sky News....
A police officer has been cleared of assaulting former footballer Dalian Atkinson before he died. PC Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith had been facing a retrial at Birmingham...
Staff at a hospital being investigated over the deaths of hundreds of patients are to be interviewed under caution by police. An independent police investigation into...
Liz Truss’s cabinet is to be asked to find “efficiency savings” in Whitehall budgets, Sky News understands, putting huge pressure on frontline services. During the leadership...
The Bank of England has launched a temporary bond-buying programme as it takes emergency action to prevent “material risk” to UK financial stability. It revealed that...
Shoppers are paying a record 10.6% more for food than they were a year ago, figures show. Overall shop price inflation accelerated to 5.7% in September,...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has criticised the UK government’s mini-budget, saying the plans for tax cuts and spending will increase inequality and counteract the Bank...
Police have released CCTV images of 13 people they want to identify following protests near the Iranian embassy in London. Protesters and police clashed outside the...
A child psychiatrist has told the Molly Russell inquest the self-harm material viewed on social media by the teenager before she died left him “not able...
Liz Truss had to be convinced to issue a government statement yesterday to calm the markets, Sky News understands. Faced with market turmoil, spiking borrowing costs,...
The Bank of England’s chief economist has said the government’s mini-budget, which led to the pound falling to a record low against the dollar, will require...
MP Rupa Huq has been administratively suspended from the Labour Party pending an investigation, after she was accused of making “racist” comments about Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng....
Keir Starmer has announced that a Labour government will create Great British Energy – a new, publicly owned company that will generate renewable sources “to cut...
Glasgow or Liverpool have been announced as the final two UK cities in the running to host the Eurovision Song Contest 2023. The two remaining cities...
The energy regulator has revealed that the vast majority of the country’s energy suppliers have been told to make improvements in how they handle customers struggling...
Friday’s mini-budget that promised billions in tax cuts and a multi-billion pound energy price cap has seen the value of the pound plummet against foreign currencies....
The collapse of the value of the pound in the wake of Friday’s mini-budget appears to have stalled, for now, but only thanks to market expectations...