Business

Demand for new staff among businesses slumped to levels seen in 2020 in the wake of last month’s budget, according to a survey of...

The former minister who was asked by the last chancellor to help turbocharge inward investment into the UK is being lined up as the...

A London-listed marketing specialist backed by Lord Ashcroft, the former Conservative Party treasurer, will this week announce the purchase of a key digital partner...

Harland & Wolff (H&W), the shipyard-owner which built the Titanic, is closing on a government-backed rescue deal with a Spanish shipping industry group. Sky...

Fourteen new trains are to be built at a Hitachi plant in County Durham, securing hundreds of jobs. The plan safeguards 700 jobs with...

One of the UK’s biggest insurers could get even bigger as Direct Line looks set to accept a sweetened £3.61bn takeover bid from Aviva....

The owner of The Guardian is pressing ahead with the sale of the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper to a fledgling digital media company, just...

Across Europe, car companies are cutting jobs and shutting factories – to the extent that some question their very existence. So it’s worth asking...

To listen to UK car manufacturers in recent weeks has been to hear a counsel of despair over the electric vehicle market. Struggling to...

Battery electric vehicles (BEVs) accounted for 25% of new car registrations in November, an almost 60% increase year-on-year and well above a government target...

Thames Water’s largest creditor group has failed to secure a veto over whether a £3bn emergency funding injection is used to settle regulatory fines...

The competition watchdog has approved the creation of the UK’s biggest phone network by allowing the merger of Three and Vodafone. Regulator the Competition...

The world’s biggest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, has been valued at more than $100,000 for the first time, spurred on by Donald Trump’s latest nomination for...

Police in New York are hunting a gunman who shot dead a healthcare executive outside a hotel in what was a “brazen targeted attack”....

One of Britain’s biggest parcel carriers has been hit by a capacity crisis at the start of the crunch festive trading period, forcing it...

Scotland has vowed to scrap the two-child benefit cap, saying it will lift 15,000 Scottish children out of poverty. Scotland’s finance secretary Shona Robison...

Business reaction to the budget is the “biggest issue” facing the Bank of England, according to its governor – while he also contemplates the...

The first three railway companies to be nationalised have been named as part of the new Labour government’s plan to bring rail into public...

Ford’s UK boss has called on the government to provide consumer incentives of up to £5,000 per car to boost demand for electric vehicles...