Business

The business secretary will next week hold talks with dozens of private sector bosses as the government contends with a significant corporate backlash to...

The cost of government borrowing has jumped, while UK stocks and the pound are up, as markets digest the news of billions in borrowing...

First things first: don’t panic. What you need to know is this. The budget has not gone down well in financial markets. Indeed, it’s...

The football financier Keith Harris is spearheading a bid to buy a 45% stake in the Premier League football club Crystal Palace in a...

The next five years will hurt disposable income and wages will stagnate further following Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ budget, an influential thinktank has said. Household...

A decision on whether to proceed with the controversial sale of The Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, will be made by Christmas, its...

The chancellor cannot rule out more tax rises in the next five years, despite raising the burden to its highest level since comparable records...

The 2024 Autumn Budget in one word? Big. What we got from Rachel Reeves today was, in economic terms, a major departure from economic...

Are you richer or poorer? Use our budget calculator to see how you have been affected by Labour’s first budget in more than 14...

More tax, more borrowing, more spending. This was a big budget by every measure, but will loom largest for businesses that will bear the...

The 2024 Autumn Budget in one word? Big. What we got from Rachel Reeves today was, in economic terms, a major departure from economic...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has finally unveiled the budget for 2024. Here are the key points: Follow live budget updates • The budget will raise...

Budgets are all about numbers. In the coming 24 hours, we’ll be engulfed with all sorts of figures – about the state of the...

Small businesses have called for the government to “significantly increase” the employment allowance to prevent them from having to shut down following the budget....

The Labour manifesto never did add up. On the one hand, Keir Starmer vowed there would be “no return to austerity” under his government,...

The minimum wage for those aged 21 years and over is set to rise by 6.7% to £12.21 – with pay for those aged...

The number of mortgages approved in September reached a level not seen in the two years since the Liz Truss mini-budget. According to figures...

Small businesses have called for the government to “significantly increase” the employment allowance to prevent them from having to shut down following the budget....

Adidas has reached an out-of-court settlement with Kanye West – known as Ye – ending all legal proceedings between them, the sportswear brand has...