Economic news and events

The UK will not be pushed around by Donald Trump’s tariff threats, Chancellor Rachel Reeves said as she defended Keir Starmer

The UK and China will seek to re-establish a business dialogue of top executives during UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s

UK inflation unexpectedly rose more than expected in December, according to figures published on Wednesday by the Office for

Re-joining the EU customs union would mean losing the benefit of new trade deals and is not on the cards, the UK chancellor

The number of universal credit (UC) claimants in Britain jumped by more than a million in 2025 in the biggest annual increase

The number of people becoming financially insolvent across England and Wales jumped to a 15-year high last year, according to

The governor of the Bank of England has said the central bank has ‘to be very alert’ to the potential impact from heightened

The speaker of the US House of Representatives has sought to assure MPs and peers that the US and UK will ‘work through our

Donald Trump has suggested Britain’s decision to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius is among the reasons he wants to take

The UK unemployment rate stayed the same in the three months to November, numbers on Tuesday showed, while regular earnings

Keir Starmer will seek to steady the ship amid a tumultuous rift between Donald Trump and European countries over Greenland

The head of the London Stock Exchange has heralded the biggest reforms to UK capital markets ‘in a generation’, as the UK

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has pulled out of an event at the London Stock Exchange, marking a ‘new golden age’ for the City

Keir Starmer urged the whole country to unite in the face of Donald Trump’s threats to invade Greenland and slap tariffs on

The UK’s growth projection for next year puts it behind only the US and Canada out of its G7 counterparts, according to the

The UK government will unveil plans this week for an overhaul of the way company mergers are scrutinised, Sky News reported

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves will say that cutting red tape for firms listing their shares on the London stock markets is

Keir Starmer will speak at Downing Street after Donald Trump’s threats to ramp up tariffs until a deal is reached for the US

Mortgage availability in the UK is expected to edge up over the three months to the end of February, according to a Bank of

Ireland’s trade surplus surged in November while annual consumer price index inflation came down in December, data published

The UK Technology secretary has said she will not rest until all social media companies comply with the law, as she welcomed

UK gross domestic product rose modestly in November, supported by growth in services and production, though construction

The UK has sent a military officer to Greenland as Denmark steps up its military presence in the Arctic and High North, amid

The British embassy in Iran’s capital Tehran has been ‘temporarily closed’, the government in London said on Wednesday.

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Elon Musk’s X is taking action to comply with UK law, the UK prime minister has told MPs following the row over its AI