Economic news and events

The planned Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk could surge in cost to nearly £40 billion, according to reports.

People close to talks over the...

New legislation will modernise how the UK’s ‘insecure and unjust private rented sector’ is regulated, the government has pledged as rental reforms are again debated...

Rental reforms should mean hopeful tenants no longer have to ‘magic up eye-watering sums up front’, campaigners have said, but landlords have claimed the proposals...

Rachel Reeves will move to reassure turbulent markets amid high government borrowing costs as she faces a grilling from MPs on Tuesday.

The UK chancellor will...

Some 120 projects in the UK trialling how artificial intelligence could help small businesses be more productive have been launched by the government in its...

Rachel Reeves is expected at Downing Street for a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday as she continues to face pressure amid market turmoil.

It comes after Keir...

EU leaders will gather in Belgium on February 3 for an exceptional defence ‘retreat’ involving Britain’s prime minister and Nato’s secretary general, two weeks after...

Pension schemes in the UK are in a ‘robust position’ to deal with market fluctuations, an industry body has said.

The pound fell to a fresh...

Rachel Reeves is under intense pressure after Keir Starmer refused to guarantee her long-term future in No 11 as the value of the pound fell...

Under-fire UK Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq has been backed by one of Keir Starmer’s most senior allies after she referred herself to the prime minister’s...