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UK economy

  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    UK consumers plan to ‘buy British’ as Trump’s trade war bites

    More than 70% of people say they intend to support UK businesses

    Seasonal British produce at New Covent Garden Market in London
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    UK Government
    British Steel crisis spurs greater scrutiny of Chinese investment in UK

    Ministers urged to review Beijing’s role in critical national infrastructure and supply chains

    Engineering teams use the world’s largest crane - Big Carl - to lift a 245-tonne steel dome onto Hinkley Point C’s first reactor building, at the nuclear power station construction site in Bridgwater, Somerset
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Quant investing
    Leda Braga’s Systematica suffers as Trump’s trade war hits quant hedge funds

    Sharp market reversals have wrongfooted many computer-driven traders betting on market trends

    Leda Braga
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Birmingham
    Birmingham bin strike to continue after workers reject pay deal

    Industrial action has led to rubbish piling up across UK’s second city

    Birmingham Bin Strike
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Scottish National party
    SNP brings forward government programme due to Trump turmoil

    Scottish first minister John Swinney says move will allow for year of ‘delivery’ ahead of Holyrood elections

    John Swinney
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Inside Politics
    In defence of Milton Keynes

    It is not perfect, but city’s infrastructure-led development and long-term planning may hold key to Labour’s new towns agenda

    Keir Starmer visits Newport Pagnell, wearing a hi-vis jacket
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Martin Wolf
    Global turmoil makes Britain’s productivity predicament even worse

    The situation is dire and only active policymaking is going to make a difference

    People with umbrellas cross a footbridge leading towards St Paul’s Cathedral
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    UK retail industry
    UK retail bosses raise fears of Chinese ‘dumping’ due to Trump tariffs

    Companies flag signs of goods being diverted from US to Europe via platforms such as Temu, Shein and Amazon

    A Currys store on Oxford Street in central London
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Special Report
    Modern Workplace: Disability

    Progress on disability employment is at risk under Trump policies; accessible transport is a route to more pay and out of worklessness; Rosie Jones on the curse of ableism and discrimination; how quotas push Chile ahead of Ireland and improve job prospects for more

    Cropped image below the chest of a person in a wheelchair at a computer workstation, operating a mouse
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Special ReportModern Workplace: Disability
    Navigating public transport and infrastructure to work

    For disabled jobseekers, accessible trains and buses are a route out of worklessness into employment and higher pay

    A person in a powered wheelchair waits at a train station platform on a sunny day
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Special ReportModern Workplace: Disability
    The squeeze for UK graduate posts hits disabled jobseekers hard

    On average, they submit 60% more job applications than non-disabled people, with many employers casting doubt on their ability

    Two people sit and laugh together in a colourful, art-filled office setting
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    UK races to secure coal to keep British Steel furnaces operating

    Officials work to ensure shipments arrive quickly after emergency government intervention

    Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    UK trade
    UK suspends import tariffs to ease strain for British businesses

    Levies cut on 89 products to support domestic companies against Trump’s trade war

    Chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    ExplainerBritish Steel Ltd
    Why did the UK rush to save British Steel and what happens next?

    Government now has tricky task of running a costly and complex industrial operation

    A large white question mark is imposed over a blue-tinted image of an industrial facility
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    Oil & Gas industry
    North Sea oil deals allow companies to offset billions in tax liabilities

    In three recent arrangements, operators with significant tax losses have merged with rivals with profitable assets

    An oil rig in the North Sea
  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    British Steel nationalisation is ‘likely option’, says business secretary

    MPs vote in favour of bill giving the government powers to seize control of British Steel

    The British Steel Scunthorpe site
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    News in-depth
    Reeves looks to nurture ‘green shoots’ of UK economic growth

    Chancellor welcomes striking official data as allies set out ‘four-pronged response’ to Trump tariffs

    Rachel Reeves
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    Ewan Gibbs
    Nationalisation is no spectre haunting British manufacturing

    Public ownership could be the saviour of the UK’s remaining steel industry

    A steelworker watches as molten steel pours from one of the Blast Furnaces in Scunthorpe
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    UK GDP
    UK economy surpasses expectations to grow 0.5% in February

    Figure comes as Rachel Reeves contends with impact of Trump tariffs

    A construction worker wearing a hard hat and high-visibility vest is working on the roof of a new retirement home
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    Pensions
    Two council pension ‘pools’ forced to merge as UK ratchets up overhaul

    Industry says reforms have been rushed and warns of cost pressures

    People walk past the main entrance to HM Treasury in Westminster, London
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    Peter Kosminsky
    The UK must protect its drama sector

    Major streamers such as Netflix should pay a levy to fund uniquely British television

    Claire Foy and Damian Lewis star in ‘Wolf Hall’
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Birmingham
    Birmingham’s bin worker strike highlights gap between rich and poor

    Wealthy residents of UK’s second city can afford private rubbish collection as deprived areas watch waste pile up

    Refuse bags are piled up in the inner Sparkhill area of Birmingham
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    ‘Chilling effect’ of trade uncertainty to hit UK growth, says BoE official

    Deputy governor Sarah Breeden says it is too soon to untangle inflationary implications stemming from trade barriers

    Sarah Breeden
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Whitehall reform
    Cabinet Office to axe a third of roles in Whitehall overhaul

    Department to shed 2,100 jobs as civil service braces for further cuts

    The Cabinet Office
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Mortgages
    Barclays joins other lenders to cut mortgage rate below 4%

    Brokers warn some lenders might be slow to pass on lower prices due to uncertainty around trade policy

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