Economic news and events

UK shop prices are at record highs after inflation accelerated in January, with a warning that the peak is yet to arrive.

Prices are now 8%...

UK mortgage approvals sunk to a two-and-a-half year low last month, with would-be home buyers deterred by rising rates, figures from the Bank of England...

UK grocery price inflation spiked to a record high this month, while discount supermarket chains achieved more market share gains at the expense of industry...

London’s High Court will on Tuesday examine the legality of a UK government decision to renew selling arms to Saudi Arabia that could be used...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday defended Brexit, insisting that leaving the EU had brought significant achievements and offered a ‘huge opportunity’, three years...

Britain’s economy will slam into reverse this year as the cost-of-living crisis hits households hard and will see the worst performance of all the advanced...

Marks & Spencer Group PLC’s chair has become the latest business leader to criticise the UK government’s economic policy, with Archie Norman calling plans to...

Broadband firms in the UK have been urged to drop penalties for customers leaving mid-contract amid concerns of impending ‘exorbitant’ price rises or exit fees...

UK car production fell to its lowest level since 1956 last year as output was hit by global shortages of semiconductor chips, new figures show....

Nearly two-thirds of UK first-time buyer mortgages being taken out are in joint names, according to a lending giant.

Some 63% of first-time buyer mortgages...