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Leading thinktank sounds alarm over cost of living crisis with poorest £4,000 worse off in 2023 than before Covid pandemicRishi Sunak is at risk of missing his flagship target to halve inflation this year, one of Britain’s leading economic forecasters …
Influential economist Andy Haldane says dearth of coherent strategy means Britain isn’t in the new ‘arms race’ to reindustrialiseBritain risks falling behind in a multibillion-pound global “arms race” of re-industrialisation without an urgent launch of…
Couriers will be moved to cheaper insecure deals after government fails on promise to bring in new employment billRapid grocery delivery firms are preparing to move hundreds of couriers paid by the hour on to insecure gig-economy contracts as the threa…
Keir Starmer’s U-turn on pledge to abolish university tuition fees is poorly timed just before local electionsA month before the 1992 general election, which the Tories won even though many expected to see Labour in Downing Street, shadow chancellor Jo…
Department is worst for publishing spending data, records show, with ministers apparently in breach of guidelinesTreasury ministers appear to have broken government guidelines by failing to publish details of their department’s spending for several mon…
Increase to 4.5% will be last rise in current cycle, former rate-setter Michael Saunders predictsThe Bank of England is likely to increase interest rates one more time in May, to 4.5%, before inflation falls “sharply” over the rest of the year, a forme…
Annual rate as measured by consumer prices index dropped to 10.1% in March, says ONSUK inflation: which goods and services have risen most in price?Business live – latest updatesUK inflation fell by less than expected in March, staying in double figure…
British public has yet to comprehend scale of party’s economic ambitions, says business chief Jonathan ReynoldsThe British public is yet to understand “the scale of Labour’s ambition on the economy”, one of Keir Starmer’s most senior shadow ministers h…
Government’s limiting of average pay rise to between 4.5% and 5% prompts fresh strike dates and potential FDA emergency ballotThe UK’s most senior civil servants could take their first strike action in more than a decade after ministers imposed an aver…
Number of working-age adults in work or job hunting is still lower than before pandemic, OECD figures showBritain has emerged as the worst-performing country in the G7 for workforce participation since the Covid pandemic, after an exodus of half a mill…