Economic news and events

Ministers in the UK are to resurrect the Pensions Commission amid fears that today’s workers face a greater risk of poverty in retirement than their...

The system for regulating water companies should be overhauled and replaced with one body for England and one body for Wales, a landmark review of...

The nationalisation of a second train company by the Labour government in the UK has been completed.

Operator c2c, which runs services between London Fenchurch Street...

The UK has sanctioned a string of Russian spies and hackers, accusing them of carrying out a campaign to ‘destabilise Europe’.

Those sanctioned include a unit...

Lloyds Banking Group PLC will make an extra £4 billion available to first-time buyers borrowing at high loan-to-income ratios, following recent mortgage lending reforms.

The banking...

Keir Starmer has hailed the ‘closeness’ of the UK and Germany, as the two nations signed a treaty that is set to free up school...

Ireland’s trade surplus climbed in May, boosted in particular by intra-EU trade, data published by the Central Statistics Office showed Thursday.

The country’s trade surplus rose...

Donald Trump has backed oil and gas over ‘detrimental’ wind power projects as he said he will meet Keir Starmer for talks in the European...

The UK jobless rate increased in May, average weekly earnings eased and the number of job vacancies, in another sign that the labour market is...

Keir Starmer will host German chancellor Friedrich Merz on his first official visit to the UK on Thursday as the prime minister seeks to boost...