Economic news and events

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced on Tuesday that he will travel to Kyiv this week with America’s top diplomat Antony Blinken as the allies...

Keir Starmer has insisted bosses are not ‘knocking on my door saying they want to rip up employee rights’ as he defended his plan to...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets the new UK government on Tuesday, with the close allies expected to share their resolve on Ukraine and...

Thousands of prisoners in British jails were due to be released early on Tuesday, as part of government moves to ease overcrowding.

Recently released figures showed...

Keir Starmer said he recognised that scaling back the winter fuel payment was a ‘really tough decision’ but said Labour must ‘secure the foundations’ of...

UK grocery price inflation resumed its slowdown, while Ocado delivered its quickest rate of growth since May 2021, figures on Tuesday showed.

Supermarket prices were 1.7%...

The UK unemployment rate edged lower in the three months to July, but wage growth abated, numbers on Tuesday showed.

According to the Office for...

Britain’s national debt is at risk of becoming ‘unsustainable’ unless the government chooses between tax rises and the state doing less and changes its fiscal...

Building activity in Ireland remained entirely flat last month, but construction companies shed staff after eight straight months of new job creation, purchasing manager’s index...

Chinese consumer inflation ticked up slightly in August to a six-month high, official data showed Monday, but the reading missed expectations and did little to...