Business

The chancellor is under pressure because financial market moves have pushed up the cost of government borrowing, putting Rachel Reeves’ economic plans in peril....

Mick Lynch, one of the UK’s most influential union leaders in recent history, has announced he is retiring. Mr Lynch is stepping down from...

An intervention by the chancellor to help shore up flagging financial market confidence in the UK economy has been ruled out by the government,...

Grocery shoppers are being warned of more hikes to food costs in the months ahead due to retailers passing on the cost of budget...

De La Rue, the Bank of England’s currency printer, has been approached about a takeover by one of the City’s most prominent financiers. Sky...

How worried should Rachel Reeves be about the fact that the interest rates on government bonds have leapt to the highest level in more...

The UK’s power grid operator has issued a call for electricity providers to bolster output this evening to avert the risk of blackouts. The...

Piers Morgan, the broadcaster and journalist, is leaving Rupert Murdoch’s British empire to focus on expanding his Uncensored YouTube channel in the US and...

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars says a record £300m investment at its West Sussex factory base will help expand production of bespoke and electric models. The...

UK music sales hit a 20-year high of £2.4bn in 2024, helped by pop megastar Taylor Swift’s latest album, and driven by streaming and...

A representative for one of the world’s biggest fast fashion retailers, Shein was unable to answer questions from MPs over where it sources its...

UK long-term borrowing costs have hit their highest level since 1998. The unwanted milestone for the Treasury’s coffers was reached ahead of an auction...

There is mounting evidence that consumers are facing hikes to bills on many fronts after Next became the latest to warn of price rises...

Shop prices will rise in 2025 as the key Christmas trading period failed to meet retailers’ expectations, according to industry data. Shop sales grew...

Here’s a quiz question: how much would you say the supply of non-Russian gas to Europe (including the UK) has gone up since the...

More than half of private sector firms are planning price hikes to help offset looming tax increases announced in the chancellor’s first budget ,...

A television network majority-owned by David Montgomery, the media entrepreneur, is to snap up the licence to operate a London-focused TV station from Lord...

Outside it is the bleak midwinter. We are smack bang in the middle of some of the country’s best agricultural land. But inside the...

The owners of Shawbrook Group, the mid-sized British lender, are drawing up plans to kickstart London’s moribund listings arena with a stock market flotation,...