Economic news and events

Some of the UK’s biggest banks contributed billions of pounds to oil and gas financing last year, while just two were found to meet high...

The UK Treasury plans to give a stamp duty holiday to investors in new stock market listings in London in an attempt to encourage more...

Britain’s Labour government plans to permanently ban fracking, a highly controversial method of extracting fossil fuels, due its environmental impact, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said...

Ed Miliband has vowed to permanently ban fracking, warning that the drilling was ‘dangerous and deeply harmful to our natural environment’.

On stage at the Labour...

The downturn in UK manufacturing worsened in September as output, orders and employment all fell at sharper rates, survey results from S&P Global showed on...

The pace of expansion in Ireland’s manufacturing sector picked up in September, and hiring activity remained strong as firms benefited from an increase in new...

The UK is becoming a more ‘unattractive’ place to hire people permanently as wage pressures and tax hikes push firms towards automation and offshoring, recruitment...

Business confidence slumped to its lowest level on record last month amid concerns over soaring costs, according to a new survey of company bosses.

Data from...

More than 80% of the cost of the new packaging tax is likely to be passed on consumers, industry leaders have warned.

The new tax –...

Keir Starmer will seek to unite a fractious party and a divided country behind him in a battle for the ‘soul’ of the UK.

The UK...