Economic news and events

Troubled Thames Water is ‘contemptible’ and lies to the public, Parliament has heard.

The scathing assessment was made at Westminster by Labour former MP John Cryer...

Health workers are to be balloted on industrial action in a dispute over pay.

Unite said its members in England and Wales will vote in the...

Rachel Reeves acknowledged she had been forced to reject calls for funding for ‘good’ projects as she refused to loosen the rules governing her stewardship...

More pensioners will receive the winter fuel allowance this winter – but payments will not be universal, the government has said.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves told reporters...

The UK government remains ‘confident’ it can implement its trade deal with the US in time to prevent Britain’s steel industry facing even higher tariffs,...

UK service sector activity returned to stronger-than-expected growth in May, but pressures on margins from increased costs, and a long streak of falling employment numbers...

Senior police chiefs and government watchdogs have written to the UK prime minister warning they will be forced to make choices about which crimes they...

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to tear up Treasury rules as she announces billions of pounds of investment in public transport in the North...

UK industry has welcomed Donald Trump’s decision to keep tariffs at 25% on British steel and aluminium for now, but warned that ‘uncertainty remains’ over...

UK economic forecasts have been downgraded for the next two years as trade tensions linked to US President Donald Trump’s tariff plans hit the global...