Economic news and events

Travellers testing positive for Covid after arriving in the UK from China will not be forced to quarantine, a Cabinet minister said.

Transport Secretary Mark...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reaffirmed the UK’s support for Ukraine, in an early January call with Volodymyr Zelensky.

The two leaders spoke after a Ukrainian...

The UK government has welcomed the Irish prime minister’s pledge to be ‘flexible and reasonable’ when it comes to reforming the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Taoiseach...

The downturn in the UK’s manufacturing sector worsened in December, survey results showed on Tuesday, as new business plummeted.

The seasonally adjusted S&P Global/CIPS...

Ireland’s factories had a weak end to 2022, survey results showed on Tuesday.

The AIB Ireland manufacturing purchasing managers’ index remained steady at 48.7 points...

Rail passengers will face fresh travel disruption from Tuesday as tens of thousands of workers take strike action in bitter disputes over pay, jobs and...

The pressure on the NHS is ‘intolerable and unsustainable’, medics have said, amid warnings that the deaths of up to 500 people each week could...

Bank borrowing and debt issues as sources to bolster corporate coffers in the UK are ‘less attractive’ now than at any time since the financial...

Footfall across the UK’s retail destinations dropped by more than a quarter in the week after Christmas compared with the week before, figures show.

Retail...

Trade union leaders in the UK have said that only ‘sensible’ proposals will end the rail dispute as passengers prepare for fresh disruption this week...