Economic news and events

Ireland will do anything it can to help Keir Starmer’s plan to ‘reset’ the UK’s relationship with the EU, Taoiseach Micheal Martin has said.

The UK...

China had been expected to loom large at high-level economic security talks between Britain and Japan on Friday, until US tariffs reared their head.

Japan is...

The UK and Ireland are set to agree a new programme of enhanced co-operation at a summit in Liverpool.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Taoiseach Micheal...

New Zealand’s most senior envoy to the UK has lost his job over remarks he made about US President Donald Trump at an event in...

Starmer has sought to downplay fears of Britain being drawn into conflict with Russia over any deployment of peacekeeping troops to Ukraine.

The UK prime minister...

The UK government has announced a £55.7 million investment into a Scottish port to bolster the floating offshore wind industry.

The money will support the Port...

Irish premier Micheal Martin has committed to raising Ireland’s views on Ukraine and Gaza when he meets US president Donald Trump next week.

The Taoiseach is...

A Royal Navy warship has shadowed a Russian task group as it sailed through the English Channel and the North Sea.

HMS Somerset kept watch over...

A cross-party committee of MPs has written to the prime minister about its ‘deep concern’ over the cut to the aid budget.

Sarah Champion, chair of...

The UK service sector recorded only marginal growth in February, as rising output masked the steepest decline in new work since November 2022 and the...