Business

CBI members are to begin voting today on the future of the business lobby group, following a series of scandals. The organisation was plunged...

Longer lorries are now allowed on Britain’s roads to enable more goods to be carried on fewer journeys. This is despite fears about the risks for...

Rail passengers are set to suffer fresh travel disruption over the next few days due to more strikes in long-running disputes over pay, jobs...

Having made tackling inflation a key policy aim, ministers are under pressure to get a grip on food prices, which are still rising at...

Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has begun her prison sentence in Texas. Holmes, 39, is due to spend the next 11 years behind bars...

Artificial intelligence poses a similar risk of human extinction as pandemics and nuclear war, experts have warned. The boss of the firm behind ChatGPT,...

Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has begun her prison sentence in Texas. Holmes is due to spend the next 11 years behind bars for...

Asda’s chairman has said supermarkets are owed a “debt of gratitude” as he dismissed talk of capping prices as “rather backward looking”. Stuart Rose’s...

The board of the CBI has drafted in lawyers to prepare for a prospective insolvency filing ahead of a crunch vote by thousands of its members...

Asda Group has said it will acquire petrol station operator EG Group’s UK and Ireland business, creating a company with combined revenues of nearly...

Food inflation in the UK has slowed from April’s record-breaking rise – but is still up more than 15% on the year, new retail...

Only a third of UK hospitality businesses are optimistic about their future due to high energy prices and rising food costs, industry bosses have...

HSBC will next month unveil a new name for the technology-focused bank it rescued earlier this year after its US parent collapsed. Sky News...

The Ineos billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe remains the leading candidate to buy Manchester United Football Club despite an inconclusive board meeting held late last...

The executive who presided over a bitter “cruises and cufflinks” row at one of Britain’s biggest wealth managers is preparing to step down. Sky...

Jeremy Hunt has told Sky News he is comfortable with Britain being plunged into recession if that’s what it takes to bring down inflation....

Britain is determined to compete in the global race for green investment, the chancellor has told Sky News, days before the expected announcement that...

The owners of Asda and petrol stations giant EG Group were on Thursday applying the finishing touches to a £10bn merger of their operations...

The chancellor has said he “is willing to do what it takes” and increase support for households if energy bills rise again this autumn....