Economic news and events

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...

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...