Economic news and events

Hundreds of British hospitality businesses shut their doors for good in the final months of 2025, as they warned over further tax hikes following the...

The UK and its European allies will sign a new clean energy pact to bring an ‘unprecedented fleet’ of offshore wind projects to the North...

The growth in UK’s service and manufacturing sectors accelerated in January, flash data published by S&P Global showed Friday, though cost pressure intensified.

The UK...

UK retail sales unexpectedly rose in December, but fell in the final quarter of the year, numbers on Friday showed.

The Office for National Statistics said...

Keir Starmer said he will discuss how to ‘take the vital steps’ towards strengthened security in the Arctic with Denmark’s prime minister, who thanked him...

Ireland’s decline in producer prices sped up in December, data published by the Central Statistics Office showed Thursday.

Irish producer prices fell 6.4% on-year in December,...

UK public sector net borrowing rose in December, the Office for National Statistics reported on Thursday.

Net borrowing, the difference between total public sector spending and...

Britain’s upper house of parliament voted Wednesday in favour of banning under?16s from using social media, raising pressure on the government to match a similar...

US president Donald Trump has hit out at the UK’s green energy policies and claimed mass migration had left Europe unrecognisable.

He told reporters at the...

Rachel Reeves has announced £1.5 billion of private investment in Britain as she attends a Davos conference overshadowed by US President Donald Trump’s threat of...