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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s director of communications is set to quit Downing Street after nine months in the job.

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[Alliance News] - The UK government should improve its response to future energy price spikes as Britons face ‘world

The UK’s estimated economic growth for 2024 was revised upwards, data published by the Office for National Statistics showed

UK retail sales outperformed the market consensus for February, numbers from the Office for National Statistics showed on

UK media company Sky Group Ltd has said around 2,000 jobs are at risk as part of an overhaul of its call centres.

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There must be no easing of sanctions on Russia until the war in Ukraine ends, Keir Starmer has said following a meeting of

The UK’s territorial greenhouse gas emissions fell by 3.5% last year compared to 2023, provisional government figures have

The UK Trade secretary has declined to rule out changing taxes on major tech firms in exchange for exemptions from US tariffs

Unions on Thursday called upon the UK government to help secure the future of British Steel, after the company announced it

Storm overflows spilled sewage into England’s rivers, lakes and coasts for new highs of more than 3.61 million hours in 2024

Rachel Reeves said she is ‘absolutely certain’ her welfare reforms will not push people into poverty, appearing to reject

The UK is not planning ‘at the moment’ to introduce retaliatory tariffs on the US, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said after

Proposals by the UK government to create a ‘smoke-free generation’ by gradually raising the age at which tobacco products can

Lower-income households in the UK are forecast to become £500 a year poorer over the next five years as a result of the

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer raised concerns about Beijing’s ‘unfair and anticompetitive’ economic policies

The UK Office for Budget Responsibility halved its UK growth forecast for 2025 to 1.0%, as Chancellor Rachel Reeves set out

Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed plans to increase defence spending as she vowed to make Britain a ‘defence-industrial

Chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed cuts to welfare spending as she pledged to secure Britain’s future with the world

[Alliance News] - Annual UK house price growth accelerated to reach 4.9% in the year to January 2025, according to Office for

Donald Trump’s administration has ‘got a case’ for saying that European nations need to do more to fund and provide their own

Consumer prices in the UK cooled slightly in February, data from the Office for National Statistics showed Wednesday.

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Rachel Reeves will acknowledge she needs to go ‘further and faster to kickstart growth’, amid dour predictions about her cost

Reducing or removing a tax on big tech companies would have ‘little impact’ on the economy, but will be a ‘tough balancing

The UK still has ‘high confidence’ that its operational security measures ‘remain intact’, despite revelations of a major US

A £9 billion road crossing between Kent and Essex has been given the go-ahead by Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander.

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