Bakery chain Greggs has warned that higher business rates risk making some of its stores unviable. The statement comes at a time when the ministers consider overhauling the tax. Chief executive, Roger Whiteside said it was “coming to London...
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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...
Sale of new cars in the UK took a deep plunge to the weakest September total for over two decades. However, the loss for petrol and diesel cars was a gain for electric vehicles. A total of 215,312 new cars were registered last month, the lowest...
The best-selling author of ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’, Robert Kiyosaki has forecast a “giant” market crash is set to happen this October. The personal finance...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has insisted there is no crisis in supply chains however, admitted just 127 visas were granted to tanker drivers. Speaking...
With the government furlough scheme coming to a close by the end of this week, there lies a lot of uncertainty among as many as 1.6 million people who remain signed up to the support programme. Also known as the job retention scheme, it is a...
Billionaire Asda owners have bought 52 branches of KFC in the South and South-West, making them the biggest operators in Europe. Brothers Mohsin and Zuber...
German discounter Aldi is all set to create 2,000 jobs, and open 100 stores across the UK over the next two years as part of a £1.3bn plan to take over the British grocery market.
A clean energy investment fund run by former US vice-president Al Gore has bought a 13% stake in British energy company Octopus in a deal worth £438m. It means the supplier is now valued at £3.36bn, which is more than the owner of British Gas,...
The Bank of England’s chief Andrew Bailey predicts a rise in interest rates next year. Speaking to the Society of Professional Economists in London, Bailey...
UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has rendered his support and blessing to a multi-billion pound trend that has seen foreign private equity firms buy out British businesses. Speaking at the launch of Treasury Connect, an event intended to bring together...
