Economic news and events

The legal age for buying tobacco should rise every year to stop youngsters taking up smoking, the prime minister has said as he also pledged...

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak axed the HS2 project from Birmingham to Manchester and promised to use the £36 billion of savings to fund hundreds...

The unemployment rate in Ireland edged higher month-on-month in September, according to figures from the Central Statistics Office on Wednesday.

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for...

UK service sector activity hit an eight-month low in September, new data on Wednesday showed.

The headline seasonally adjusted services PMI business activity index registered 49.3...

Overall private sector growth in Ireland slowed in September, despite a robust showing in the service sector, survey results from S&P Global showed on Wednesday.

The...

Rishi Sunak will rail against post-Thatcher politics and attempt to portray himself as a radical reformer as he faced a backlash for abandoning the northern...

Rishi Sunak said Liz Truss’s demand for a tax cut was not the ‘right priority’ for the country as he brushed off questions about his...

Rishi Sunak is facing a backlash from Tories, businesses and northern leaders over a chaotic announcement to save billions of pounds by scrapping the HS2...

Shop price inflation in the UK cooled for the fifth consecutive month in September, data showed on Tuesday.

According to the latest British Retail Consortium-NielsenIQ...

The UK manufacturing sector stayed in decline last month, as companies scaled back production on lower demand, data on Monday showed.

The latest S&P Global/Chartered...