Business

Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have scrapped plans to break their manifesto pledge and raise income tax rates in a massive U-turn less...

The number of domestic UK flights has more than halved over the past 20 years, even as global air travel continues to grow. This...

An influential coalition of leaders from Britain’s professional services sector has warned Rachel Reeves that a Budget tax raid on the sector would “stunt...

The electric vehicle-leasing business which forms part of the same group as Britain’s biggest household energy supplier will on Friday announce a £500m extension...

The UK’s economic slowdown gathered further momentum during the third quarter of the year with growth of just 0.1%, according to an early official...

The British Medical Association (BMA) has defended a new round of resident doctor walkouts starting on Friday, insisting medics’ pay is still “way down”...

Wylfa, on Anglesey, also known as Ynys Mon, has been chosen as the site for the UK’s first small modular reactor nuclear power station,...

Some of the biggest names in music – including Coldplay, Dua Lipa and Radiohead – have urged the government to honour a pledge to...

WH Ireland, the wealth management group, is in talks about an all-share merger with Team, another London-listed operator in the sector. Sky News has...

Thousands of job cuts at the NHS will go ahead after the £1bn needed to fund the redundancies was approved by the Treasury. The...

A Japanese manufacturing firm is facing a union battle over plans to shut factories in County Durham with the loss of hundreds of jobs....

The UK’s jobless rate has risen to a level not seen since late 2020, according to official figures released ahead of the budget. The...

In a small town in Suffolk, a team of police officers walk into a Turkish barbershop. It’s clean and brightly painted, the local football...

The Post Office has agreed a further extension to its scandal-hit software deal with the Japanese company Fujitsu as it plots a move to...

Former Tesco boss Sir Dave Lewis is to become the new chief executive of Diageo, the struggling FTSE 100 drinks giant. The world’s largest...

The unravelling of the Barclay family’s business empire will continue this week when Carlyle, the US-based investment giant, formally takes control of The Very...

Sir Alan Bates has told Sky News that the government’s new Capture Redress Scheme is “half-baked”. The Post Office scandal campaigner, who may also...

The proposed £1.6bn takeover of a big chunk of ITV by Sky would be the biggest consolidation in British broadcasting in more than 20...

Elon Musk could be on track for a $1trn (£761bn) pay package – if Tesla meets a series of extremely ambitious targets over the...