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The national living wage will rise to £11.44 per hour from April. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced he is accepting the recommendation from the...

It’s autumn statement time. Once upon a time, these winter budgets used to be brief updates on the fiscal forecasts, never overshadowing the far...

Hopes of establishing a unified commercial structure for the top two tiers of women’s football in England have been dealt a blow after Championship...

Markets are underestimating how persistent inflation will be in the next year and interest rates are likely to remain high as a result, the...

The electricity, phone and broadband provider arm of Shell has been fined £1.4m by the communications regulator for breaking customer protection rules. Shell Energy...

Rishi Sunak has promised he will cut taxes now the government has achieved its pledge to halve inflation by the end of the year....

More than 500 employees of revolutionary artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI have said they will leave if the ousted CEO Sam Altman is not...

A new interim chief executive has been appointed to the company behind major AI chatbot ChatGPT, with the ousted ex-CEO Sam Altman being tapped...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says “everything is on the table” when it comes to tax cuts in this week’s autumn statement. Speaking to Sky News’...

Jeremy Hunt will this week pledge to review the rules governing payment authentication in what he will describe as a post-Brexit crackdown on fraud....

A court hearing to liquidate a Barclay family holding companies in order to smooth a sale of The Daily Telegraph is poised to be...

Alphabet, the $1.7trn (£1.4trn) technology behemoth which owns Google, is in talks to take a stake in Monzo, one of Britain’s biggest digital retail...

Jeremy Hunt has said there is the chance to lower taxes in the autumn statement next week, arguing the economy had “turned a corner”....

The chief executive of OpenAI – the firm behind viral chatbot ChatGPT – has been ousted after the board said it no longer has...

He was a tech whizz before he left primary school, dropped out of one of America’s top universities, and appeared to be spearheading a...

Sir Jim Ratcliffe and the Glazer family are on the brink of finalising a $33-a-share deal that will see the petrochemicals tycoon acquiring a...

Retail sales took an unexpected fall last month, according to official figures suggesting a slump to COVID lockdown levels with only online operators seeing...

In the narrow lanes around Aldham in Essex the countryside is close to the English ideal. On an unseasonably warm mid-October day the fields...

The government has announced plans to remove benefits and step up monitoring of welfare recipients in an effort to bring more people into work....