Economic news and events

Irish retail sales continued to rise in December, provisional data from the Central Statistics Office showed on Tuesday.

The estimated volume of retail sales grew...

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has given her support for a third runway at Heathrow Airport.

In a speech in Oxfordshire on growth, she said the west...

The UK government has been defeated in the Lords over measures to protect creatives from having their copyrighted work used to train artificial intelligence models...

Keir Starmer has vowed to ‘clear out the regulatory weeds’ to encourage growth, as Rachel Reeves will say that Britain has been ‘held back’ and...

The prime minister has ruled out setting an ‘arbitrary’ cap to cut ‘staggeringly high’ migration levels after the UK population was projected to grow by...

The Irish economy contracted slightly in the final quarter of 2024, preliminary data from Ireland’s Central Statistics Office showed on Tuesday, though it grew from...

The EU and Britain crossed swords Tuesday at the world’s oldest arbitration body over rights to fish a tiny North Sea species, with Brussels accusing...

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have ordered Cabinet colleagues to ditch policies which could stand in the way of efforts to grow the economy.

The UK...

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the UK and US were ‘working together’ to improve the security of people in the two countries after speaking with...

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves will meet top executives from some of Britain’s major businesses on Tuesday as they continue their quest for economic growth.

The...