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5th Dec 2025 | Updated at 06:37am 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...
Manchester headquartered Insync Bikes has been named as one of the fastest growing Indian-owned companies in the UK after seeing growth of 43pc in the last year. Insync Bikes is owned by India’s Hero Cycles and the company has just accepted...
McColl's currently employs 16,000 people across its 1,100 stores. Morrisons is already in a partnership with McColl's, which operates more than 200 Morrisons Daily convenience stores.
The Bank of England has hiked the interest rates it charged from commercial banks for loans from from 0.75% to 1% from last week. This is the highest hike...
As the relationship between the UK and India continues to grow, following the launch of Free Trade Negotiations at the start of the year and the Prime Minister’s official visit last month, the latest research from the 2022 Grant Thornton India...
Hero International (HIT), a part of India’s Hero Motors Company (HMC), announced plans to add a new e-cycle assembly line within its manufacturing facility...
The euro fell to a five-year low against the dollar, falling below $1.06. Russia has acted on its longstanding threat to cut gas supplies to countries that don’t pay in roubles – starting with Poland and Bulgaria. Poland and Bulgaria say this...
In August 2021 the number of available jobs in the UK exceeded one million, the highest figure on record. Termed by many as ‘The Great Resignation’, the employment environment is changing, with resignations close to all-time highs. Workers seem...
Insolvencies fell sharply during the coronavirus pandemic, when 1.7 million businesses were propped up by 80 billion pounds ($99.9 billion) in government-backed loans and there was a ban on many court proceedings to force businesses into liquidation.
The Bank of England has been rolling out new requirements on so-called operational resilience which required banks to spell out by the end of last month...
