Economic news and events

UK jets were scrambled to monitor a Russian reconnaissance aircraft flying close to UK airspace, the defence minister in London said on Friday.

Two Typhoons from...

(Clarifies that the quarterly GDP decline underperformed against the consensus.)

UK gross domestic product is estimated to have increased in the latest quarter but edged down...

UK gross domestic product is estimated to have increased in the latest quarter but edged down for September, data from the Office for National Statistics...

The governor of the Bank of England said the UK must ‘welcome opportunities to rebuild relations’ following Brexit, as he backed the chancellor’s plans to...

The Labour government plans reforms to its financial sector in a bid to grow its economy, including an announcement Thursday that will allow greater risk-taking.

Finance...

Council tax rises in England will help ensure local authorities are funded next year, a minister has said as he rejected Tory claims of a...

New coal mining schemes will be banned in the UK, the government has said.

Ministers have confirmed that legislation will be introduced to restrict the future...

The UK has condemned Israeli government minister Bezalel Smotrich for suggesting annexation of the West Bank.

The finance minister, a hard-line settler leader, said he hoped...

UK pension ‘megafunds’ are set to be created to help unlock billions of pounds of investment in businesses and infrastructure.

Rachel Reeves will use her first...

New home registrations jumped by 40% in the third quarter of this year compared with the same period a year earlier, according to an industry...