Rising petrol and diesel prices are putting pressure on household budgets, with energy bills and food prices also now at multi-year highs. The RAC motoring group called it "a truly dark day" as the cost of filling a 55-litre tank reached £100.27...
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5th Dec 2025 | Updated at 05:45am 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...
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said April’s data showed UK's gross domestic product (GDP), a measure of the size of the economy, fell by 0.3%...
The Bank of England is expected to raise interest rate from 1 to 1.25 per cent, its steepest rate hikes in 25 years, and is likely to keep going in the...
Staff shortage is affecting the aviation industry in UK and thousands of travellers are believed to have been stuck abroad after flight cancellations over the weekend. The problems are taking time to resolve and Advantage's chief executive warned...
RAC, the motoring body, said that the price of petrol surged by nearly 5p a litre in the week that included the bank holiday break. RAC says that it could soon hit 180p a litre.
CityFibre is one of dozens of alternative network providers, or altnets, that have been laying fibre lines, taking advantage of the slow pace at which monopoly BT was upgrading its network from copper. Over the past two years, as BT and Virgin...
Stefan Hoops, a protégé of Christian Sewing, Deutsche chief executive, will take over from Asoka Wöhrmann next week, inheriting a business being investigated by US and German authorities after a whistleblower accused DWS of misrepresenting how...
Centrica's facility in Yorkshire was mothballed in 2017 when the government refused to subsidise it. The government may now be prepared to contribute to...
Leaders of the EU’s 27 member states have now agreed to ban seaborne Russian oil imports. To placate landlocked countries such as Hungary, pipeline shipments...
Shell, a British multinational oil and gas company, is now in talks with a consortium of Indian energy companies to sell its stake in a major liquefied natural gas plant in Russia which the British company abandoned following Moscow’s invasion...
