Economic news and events

British former prime minister Liz Truss, on a visit to Taiwan Wednesday, will set up a full-throated clash with both China and her successor Rishi...

UK Housing Secretary Michael Gove has conceded there ‘simply aren’t enough homes’ in Britain as he said the prime minister had commissioned him to work...

UK unemployment ticked up in the three months to March, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed on Tuesday.

The UK jobless rate unexpectedly...

One in five taxpayers will be paying higher-rate income tax by 2027, as frozen thresholds bite households, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Over recent...

The Bank of England’s top economist has said he should have been more careful over his wording after he faced criticism for indicating that some...

The UK will provide Ukraine with air defence missiles and attack drones, Downing Street has announced, as Volodymyr Zelensky met Rishi Sunak at Chequers.

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Volodymyr Zelensky is due to meet Rishi Sunak in the UK on Monday in the latest stop on a tour of European capitals by the...

Kemi Badenoch is flying to Switzerland for talks aimed at modernising the UK’s trade agreement with the country as the government continues its attempts to...

The UK’s trade deficit narrowed in March, as shrinking imports outpaced a fall in exports, according to numbers from the Office for National Statistics on...

UK gross domestic product grew 0.1% in the first quarter of 2023, despite a poor showing for the economy in March, according to numbers released...