The billionaire Issa brothers' EG Group has pulled out of its planned £750mn acquisition of Asda's forecourt business. The Lancashire-headquartered company,...
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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 new, not-for-profit, free of charge dispute resolution service, the Business Banking Resolution Service (BBRS) is appealing directly to London-based...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Autumn budget 2021 is full of promises and hope with a booster dose of what seems like a humble bunch of zeroes. The budget being...
In a bid to tackle supply chain problems in the run -up to Christmas, UK is set to relax the rules on the number of deliveries overseas lorry drivers can...
Daligas, another UK energy supplier, has ceased trading, regulator Ofgem announced, making it the third provider to collapse this week. It supplies gas...
The number of businesses that failed in England and Wales last month was the largest since the Covid pandemic began. Company insolvencies in September totalled 1,446, increasing from 1,349 in August and 56% higher than the same month last year,...
The Bank of England "will have to act" over rising inflation, governor Andrew Bailey warned, suggesting that UK interest rates may rise soon. However,...
Cabinet minister Kwasi Kwarteng has been accused of making misleading claims about a £1.2bn cable project directly linked to a Conservative donor. As revealed...
Britain’s financial regulator has come under fresh controversy and has been accused of failing from “top to bottom” after a report revealed its staff were paid out £125mn in bonuses since 2016. Campaigners said the payouts at the Financial Conduct...
The owner of Liberty Steel has pledged to restart its Rotherham and Stocksbridge plants this month, saving around 1,000 jobs. The move comes after Sanjeev...
