Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay is a Professor of Economics at the University of Birmingham, the UK where he is also Director of the cross-disciplinary Centre...
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5th Dec 2025 | Updated at 09:18am 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...
For many small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) going online was vital for their survival over the past two years and also opened up new markets and presented opportunities for growth. As businesses were forced to close due to lockdowns and...
The UK economy grew by 0.9% in November, a rise that saw it recover all of its pandemic losses and offered hope that a further bounce back this year is on the cards. The ONS said GDP should beat pre-pandemic levels for the fourth quarter as...
According to a recent survey from the Bank of England (BoE), mortgage demand falls from a measure of -35.3 in the third quarter to -34.8 in the last quarter....
Following the footsteps of JD Sports executive chair Peter Cowgill, SSA Investments, the family office of B&M CEO Simon Arora, sold 40 million shares overnight at a price of 585p. Earlier, Sports executive chair Peter Cowgill surprised the market...
Some companies in UK are now planning to launch a four-day working week, leading to questions of how they work and what their main benefits are. Arguments have raged for years over how long the working week should be, with some believing that...
UK families have suffered the sharpest fall in the amount of cash available with them to spend for almost eight years due to high inflation and rising energy bills. The index, which measures households’ overall perceptions of financial wellbeing,...
The Bank of England policymaker Michael Saunders has said he wanted more information about the impact of the new Coronavirus variant - Omicron, before deciding how to vote this month. He said it might slow the British economy, however, it could...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is preparing to cut income tax by 2 pence to the pound or slash rates of Value Added Tax (VAT) before the next election, says a...
A prominent survey reveals high export sales have helped the UK services sector record another strong month of recovery. The IHS Markit/CIPS Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for UK services gave the industry reading of 58.5 in November, a modest...
