A committee of MPs have recently found that almost £400mn of taxpayer money is at increased risk due to a failure to conduct sufficient checks on the now-collapsed...
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5th Dec 2025 | Updated at 10:22am 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...
A British financial watchdog has been accused of unlawfully changing its complaints scheme in a bid to avoid paying compensation to victims of failed funds...
Millions of pensioners face a £169 blow to their incomes next year as the government is set to reject calls from the House of Lords for a bigger pension rise despite inflation already nearing a decade-high four per cent. Around 12.4 million...
A report reveals the end of the furlough scheme had little impact on the levels of unemployment. There were severe concerns that the withdrawal of the furlough scheme could lead to a spike in unemployment, especially considering more than a...
In a new report, British MPs reveal the future of tycoon Sanjeev Gupta’s family-owned conglomerate is under threat. Gupta’s GFG Alliance has been struggling...
The coalition government’s ‘Google Tax’, aimed at cracking down on multinationals shifting profits overseas, has been criticized as a “total failure”. New documents show it is predicted to raise no money over the next six years. Officials had...
Irish airline Ryanair says it is expecting to cut fares this winter to help boost passenger demand. While the airline has seen business picking up recently, it warned it was still recovering from the Covid-related collapse in air travel. It...
Analysts have warned that rising mortgage rates risk bringing down buyers, and slowing runaway price growth. Several UK banks reported strong mortgage demand in their third-quarter results last week, including Santander, NatWest, and Lloyds.
More than twice the voters now believe that Brexit is taking a negative toll on the UK economy, as per the latest opinion poll for the Observer. The survey comes as Richard Hughes, the chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility, said his...
Karnataka born CS Venkatakrishnan, who was Barclays global head of markets and previously chief risk officer, has replaced Jes Staley as the British bank’s...
