Economic news and events

Keir Starmer has welcomed the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal as ‘long-overdue news’ and paid tribute to ‘the British people who were murdered by Hamas.

The...

Talks to form Ireland’s new government have concluded, party representatives said Wednesday, with a three-way coalition set to be unveiled next week.

Two incumbent centre-right parties...

UK troops have touched down in Japan, as the two countries’ senior defence officials meet for talks to strengthen their alliance.

Some 100 UK soldiers have...

The UK is ‘mid-negotiation’ on a revised deal to hand back the Chagos Islands, a minister has said.

Reports had suggested that Mauritian Prime Minister Navin...

Consumer price inflation in the UK slowed by more than expected in December while the decline in producer prices slowed, data published by the Office...

Mauritius’s prime minister is to meet senior government figures, reports have suggested, amid claims that a deal for the UK relinquish control the Chagos Islands...

Two-thirds of chief financial officers at 52 leading retailers said they would raise prices in response to the UK government’s decision to hike employer national...

UK Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq has left the government, Number 10 said.

Siddiq said she had not breached the ministerial code but that continuing in her...

Rachel Reeves insisted the turbulence in the financial markets underlined the need to go ‘further and faster’ in search of economic growth.

The UK chancellor faced...

Rachel Reeves insisted the turbulence in the financial markets underlined the need to go ‘further and faster’ in search of economic growth.

The UK chancellor faced...