Business

A greater proportion of electric cars were sold last month than at any point this year, industry data shows. More than a quarter (26.5%)...

The head of Britain’s main banking lobby group has warned the chancellor against a budget raid on the industry, arguing that it would undermine...

The leader of Britain’s trade unions has urged Labour to fight Reform UK by hitting millionaires, banks and gambling with higher taxes. Paul Nowak,...

Fashion giant Shein has opened an investigation after a shirt was advertised on its site, modelled by a man bearing a striking resemblance to...

There is “considerably more doubt” over when future interest rate cuts can take place, the governor of the Bank of England has said. Andrew...

After hitting the highest level this century on Tuesday, the cost of long term UK government borrowing has now hit a fresh 27-year high....

More than a thousand high street jobs will be put at risk this week when Bodycare, the health and beauty retailer, is forced to...

The American investors who have agreed to become the new owners of The Daily Telegraph have edged closer to gaining control of the newspaper...

The group of Thames Water lenders aiming to rescue the company have set out plans for £20.5bn of investment to bolster performance. The proposals,...

No chancellor much likes it when the pound takes a tumble. No chancellor much likes it when the yield on their government debt –...

The value of the pound has sunk – as the cost of 30-year government borrowing reached a high last seen in 1998. The so-called...

Nestle shares opened down more than 2.5% after the maker of Nescafe, Cheerios, KitKat, and Rolos dismissed its chief executive after an investigation into...

The owner of the Cote restaurant chain is exploring the option of injecting new funding into the business and retaining control after two months...

There are 1,210 completed homes which cannot be occupied because of delays in the work of the government’s building safety regulator, Sky News can...

Thames Water’s largest group of creditors is to offer an additional £1bn-plus sweetener in a bid to persuade Ofwat and the government to pursue...

The vast majority of policymakers in Westminster, let alone elsewhere around the UK, have never heard of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the geopolitical grouping...

Aberdeen is in exclusive talks to sell Finimize, the investment insights platform it bought just four years ago, as its new chief executive unwinds...

Naguib Kheraj, the City veteran, has been shortlisted to become the next chairman of HSBC Holdings, Europe’s biggest bank. Sky News can reveal that...

Shares in UK banks have fallen sharply on the back of a report which urges the chancellor to place their profits in her sights...