Under the Professional Qualifications Act, the UK government can ensure regulators have the ability to agree recognition arrangements with overseas counterparts. These recognition arrangements can make it easier for British professionals to...
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20th Mar 2026 | Updated at 09:43am 20th Mar 2026
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...
The Bank of England (BoE) has been forced to act by surging inflation driven by soaring energy and fuel costs that have spiked since Russia invaded Ukraine...
Devie Mohan grew up in Trivandrum, Kerala and was always interested in technology. She took up computer engineering at a time when the course itself was...
The average annual salary for a newly-qualified City lawyer has soared to £185,000 a year, as a war for talent in a tight labour market comes when reports of firms paying ”stupid money“ are rife.
Yang Huiyan is a majority shareholder in China’s biggest property developer Country Garden and she saw her net worth plunge by more than 52 per cent to £9.3bn from £19.5bn a year ago.
Contracting giant Carillion went into compulsory liquidation in January 2018. At the time it was the UK’s second-largest contractor and held approximately 450 contracts with the government. Clients included the Department for Transport, the...
London Underground and Overground staff will go on strike on 19 August, unions have confirmed, piling on transport misery for passengers in the middle of a national rail strike.
British Airways has suspended ticket sales on short-haul flights out of Heathrow.This step was taken to comply with the passenger cap announced by the London airport three weeks ago. BA paused sales last weekend and has now extended that until...
Around one in 12 businesses have defaulted on the Government-backed loans they took during the pandemic. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy revealed that £414 million has so far been paid out to cover loans that have...
Boosted by higher revenues from its oil and gas business, British Gas said its operating profits had increased to £1.3 billion in the first six months...
