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

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...

Virtual worlds, where users’ life like 3D avatars can express themselves in a fuller range of human speech and gestures, present an even greater content-moderation challenge than the hundreds of millions of written posts and images that flow...

Bosses of tech groups such as Checkout.com, Klarna and Graphcore were invited to Downing Street to meet City minister John Glen and officials to discuss the progress made in attracting founder-led tech companies.

The number of people experiencing food insecurity was one-fifth higher in January than six months previously, according to a survey that showed families in the UK were struggling to feed themselves even before the imminent squeeze on living...

A 2020 government report said “corrupt foreign elites continue to be attracted to the UK property market, especially in London, to disguise their corruption proceeds.” The economic crime bill was recently put before the Parliamentary Business...

Government plans to bring out a new law to ensure that private sector will be forced to bring their properties up to the national standards for the first time under plans to be unveiled in the government’s levelling-up strategy.

With surging inflation exacerbating a cost-of-living squeeze, the government has faced growing pressure, including from some of its own Conservative lawmakers to delay or cancel a new health and social care levy that will see the rate of National...

With the recent Free Trade Agreement between India and UK, the two countries have a great chance at relooking at their economic policies, benefiting from this alliance and learning from their past mistakes. Asian Voice spoke to two British Indian...



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