Economic news and events

The rising sickness and disability benefits bill is ‘devastating’ for the public finances and has ‘wreaked a terrible human cost’, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer...

Bosses at Tata Steel UK and British Steel said customers are taking steps to cancel orders after Donald Trump slapped trade tariffs on US metals...

Lloyds Banking Group PLC has pushed the button on an overhaul of its IT division, affecting about 6,000 staff, as the group races to modernise...

David Lammy has reiterated the need for an ‘enduring and a lasting peace’ in Ukraine, ahead of talks with the EU’s high representative on foreign...

Downing Street has rowed back on the Foreign secretary’s assertion that Israel had broken international law by blocking aid shipments to Gaza.

Number 10 said instead...

An overhaul of the UK welfare system will see the assessment process for some health benefits scrapped and reform to disability benefits in a plan...

Keir Starmer spoke to Donald Trump ahead of the US president’s crunch talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

The prime minister told Trump that Ukraine must be...

Ireland’s trade surplus surged in January, helped by a sharp increase in its surplus with the US, data published by the Central Statistics Office showed...

The number of companies going into compulsory liquidation hit its highest point in more than a decade last month, according to official data.

Some 393 companies...

The UK will not impose an arms embargo on Israel over an aid blockade to Gaza described by the Foreign secretary as a ‘breach of...