Chancellor Rishi Sunak is preparing to launch a fund that would channel up to £375m into fast growing UK tech companies that could leave the taxpayer with stakes in dozens of start-ups. The new initiative, called “Future Fund: Breakthrough”,...
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21st Mar 2026 | Updated at 04:54am 21st Mar 2026
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...
Hindujas, Britain’s second-richest household, is exploring plans to join a wave of “blank cheque” mergers in a transfer that might see one other main UK electric car producer going public within the US. It is learnt that Ashok Leyland, the Indian-listed...
The India-UK bilateral relations will touch a new high in the post-Covid-19 world, Britain Meets India report has noted, mapping the fastest growing British...
A new research reveals over half of UK employers are keen on recruiting staff in the next three months. The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIBD) said it was the first positive sign for employment prospects it had seen in a...
UK's competition watchdog is reportedly in the works to launch a series of antitrust investigations into big tech companies, including Google and Amazon...
British Airways has announced a delay of pension deficit contributions worth £450mn as the company, like several in the airlines industry struggles to...
The furlough scheme was introduced by the government to support employees who were unable to work or made redundant. The government has been paying 80%...
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab believes effects of potential losses in UK trade with the EU because of Brexit can be surmounted by multiple opportunities...
A report published by a British think-tank reveals the number of self-employed people who have stopped working during the current lockdown is 50 per cent higher than the number without work during the first lockdown. A study by the Resolution...
Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s growth oriented Budget 2021 has not just appeased the corporate sector and capital markets, but also brought...
