Economic news and events

The UK welfare budget has to be put on a ‘more sustainable course’, Liz Kendall said as she warned the country could not keep meeting...

Business groups and economists have said UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ latest plans to grow the economy are welcome, but that measures in the October budget...

Efforts to develop what could be ‘Europe’s Silicon Valley’ in a region spanning from Cambridge to Oxford have faced a significant challenge – a lack...

Heathrow Airport’s third runway can be built in the next decade, Rachel Reeves has said, as she aims to boost growth amid the UK’s gloomy...

Rachel Reeves has insisted ‘net zero is the industrial opportunity of the 21st century’ as she set out plans to boost growth in a slew...

Rachel Reeves has given her backing to a new £9 billion road crossing between Kent and Essex.

The Chancellor said the 14.3-mile Lower Thames Crossing, LTC,...

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...