Economic news and events

Some £6 billion will be spent on speeding up testing and treatment in the National Health Service, Rachel Reeves has announced, after she placed the...

The UK has reached a deal with the EU over Gibraltar’s border with Spain that will allow travellers to cross by land without checks.

The agreement...

The EU announced on Wednesday it had sealed a deal with Britain on the status of the territory of Gibraltar, five years after Brexit.

The deal...

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday it was possible to rebalance economic relations with China if Beijing proved a ‘reliable partner in trade negotiations,’...

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves said ‘we are renewing Britain’ as she set out how she plans to spend hundreds of billions of pounds of taxpayers’...

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves said ‘we are renewing Britain’ as she set out how she plans to spend hundreds of billions of pounds of taxpayers’...

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves will unveil her spending review on Wednesday, arguing that her priorities are ‘the priorities of working people’.

The chancellor is expected to...

European Central Bank Chief Christine Lagarde warned Wednesday that ‘coercive trade policies’ risked harming supply chains and the global economy, and called for a de-escalation...

The UK has sanctioned two Israeli government ministers for ‘inciting violence’ and abuses of Palestinian human rights, David Lammy has said.

Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich,...

The UK unemployment rate rose slightly in the three months to April, as expected, while pay growth was more moderate than forecast, according to numbers...