Economic news and events

The UK unemployment rate ticked downward in the three months to April, while pay growth picked up, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed...

Taxes could start falling if productivity is boosted in the public sector, UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has suggested.

Hunt acknowledged that tackling high inflation must be...

The UK government has overturned demands from peers for extra safeguards over post-Brexit plans to scrap EU laws.

MPs voted 269 to 204, majority 65, to...

Boris Johnson has accused UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of ‘talking rubbish’ after he claimed his predecessor asked him to overrule the vetting committee to...

The Irish minister for finance has said the upcoming budget will be ‘prudent’.

Michael McGrath was speaking to reporters before the National Economic Dialogue which is...

Further interest rate rises ‘cannot be ruled out’ amid decades-high inflation in the UK, a Bank of England policymaker said.

Jonathan Haskel, writing in The Scotsman,...

Activity in the Irish construction sector neared stabilisation in May, as new orders continued to grow, according to purchasing managers’ index survey data on Monday....

Rishi Sunak will tell technology leaders he wants to make the UK both the intellectual and the geographical home of artificial intelligence regulation.

In a speech...

Optimism among UK manufacturers has dipped to its lowest level in more than two years as they grapple with high costs and material shortages, according...

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been urged to call a snap general election after three quick-fire MP resignations left him facing by-election battles on...