Economic news and events

A Labour government of the UK would be prepared to borrow to invest, Rachel Reeves will say on Monday, but only within her fiscal rules...

A Treasury taskforce has revealed its ‘gold standard’ guidelines for companies to report their plans to tackle climate change.

The Transition Plan Taskforce, which includes members...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he hopes tensions between Canada and India will de-escalate after a diplomatic row over the killing of a Sikh...

The UK is on course to see its biggest tax rise in at least 50 years as a result of the freeze on personal thresholds...

UK house prices fell again in September, but the pace of the month-on-month decline slowed, according to the Halifax house price index released on Friday

Halifax...

Keir Starmer has hailed a ‘seismic result’ for Labour after his party overwhelmingly won Scotland’s first recall by-election.

Labour candidate Michael Shanks won the Rutherglen and...

The decline in UK retail footfall worsened last month, in a ‘subdued’ end to the third-quarter, numbers on Friday showed, with focus now turning to...

The opposition Labour cannot commit to building HS2’s northern leg if it wins the next election after the UK government ‘took a wrecking ball’ to...

Irish premier Leo Varadkar has spoken of his concerns that the UK is ‘disengaging from the world’.

The Taoiseach commented on language coming from the Conservative...

The Irish budget will offer support for people struggling with high electricity bills this winter, the taoiseach has said.

Leo Varadkar said details of the energy...