Officials working from home are not to blame for long waiting times on HM Revenue and Custom’s self-assessment helpline, the department has said.
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5th Dec 2025 | Updated at 01:35am 5th Dec 2025
Where is growth in the Budget?
Rachel Reeves and the government have missed a real opportunity to put our country on a growth trajectory in this Budget.
Why Britain’s middle class feels squeezed
- 04 Dec 2025
Rachel Reeves has pulled a staggering £66bn from the UK economy: £40bn in the October 2024 Budget, largely from businesses, and another £26bn in the November 2025 Budget, hitting workers, the wealthy and businesses to fund higher welfare spending...
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has warned the Government must maintain its “disciplined approach” to the public finances if it is to get inflation under control.
The Bank of England looks on course to raise its main interest rate by half a percentage point to 4%, but economists will be looking keenly for signals that this 10th consecutive rate rise will be one of the BoE's last.
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has posted its first profit in two years after bumper sales of its newest Range Rover.
A record number of mansions were sold in London in 2022, in signs the capital’s super-rich are shrugging off an economic downturn to get their hands on...
Tide, a small and medium enterprise (SME)-focused business financial platform based in the UK, has launched operations in India by introducing a business banking account and its RuPay-powered Tide Expense Card.
Santander UK has become the latest bank to be hit with a heavy fine by the country’s financial regulator over anti-money laundering failings.
A UK regulator has banned three bond traders and fined them a total of almost £600,000 for “market manipulation” six years ago when they were employed by the UK-based subsidiary of Japan’s Mizuho Financial Group.
Microsoft has agreed to buy a £1.5 bn stake in London Stock Exchange Group as part of a 10-year strategic partnership between the US software company and the 300-year-old UK exchange.
Jeremy Hunt has announced plans to reform the UK financial sector, in what would be the biggest shake-up of its kind in more than 30 years.
