Economic news and events

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer faced the most serious internal rebellion of his year-long premiership on Tuesday, as MPs

Keir Starmer has defended his government’s record over its first year in office, all while he faces the largest revolt of his

The group behind one of Britain’s largest oil refineries has collapsed into administration, sparking fears over oil supplies

The final phase of post-Brexit food labelling on products being shipped from Great Britain to Northern Ireland has been

Energy firms in Great Britain are set to discuss how the National Grid could be upgraded to cope with the future demands of

Industrial firms in the UK are to be hit with nearly £700 million in new property taxes, offsetting some of the UK government

The UK manufacturing sector remained in contraction territory in June, numbers on Tuesday showed, though the downturn eased

The average UK house price dipped by 0.8% month-on-month in June, according to an index.

Across the UK, the typical property

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer continues to face the prospect of a major rebellion over his welfare cuts despite making

A move to give ministers an emergency power to counter the commercial fallout of EU law post-Brexit suffered a delay after a

The UK government’s U-turn on welfare cuts will cost taxpayers around £2.5 billion by 2030, the Work & Pensions Secretary has

Ireland’s harmonised consumer price inflation rate is expected to have picked up in June, preliminary data published by the

UK mortgage approvals were higher than expected in May, numbers from the Bank of England showed on Monday.

Net mortgage

UK gross domestic product grew as expected during the first quarter of 2025, according to data from the Office for National

The UK government is to set out the concessions it has made to its welfare reforms in the hope that the climbdown on cuts

Tariff cuts for the UK automotive and aerospace sectors have come into force after Prime Minister Keir Starmer finalised

Keir Starmer has said he did not get to grips with the growing rebellion over welfare reforms earlier as he was focused on

There are predictions of tax rises in the autumn budget after Keir Starmer U-turned on welfare reforms in the face of a

There are predictions of tax rises in the Autumn budget after Keir Starmer U-turned on welfare reforms in the face of a

Keir Starmer has said his welfare reforms now strike ‘the right balance’ after he U-turned in the face of a major backbench

Keir Starmer has said he ‘deeply regrets’ claiming the UK risked becoming an ‘island of strangers’ in an immigration speech

The number of UK home sales picked up by a quarter month on month in May following a plunge in April as a stamp duty holiday

The UK and France are expected to announce a one in, one out migrant returns deal to crack down on English Channel crossings

Ministers now expect the UK government’s welfare legislation to pass the Commons after Prime Minister Keir Starmer backed

Production of cars and commercial vehicles in the UK fell for the fifth month in a row in May, while car exports to the US