More results...
Survey shows nearly 90% of 2019 Conservative voters say green industry is vital to UK’s economic growthUK politics live – latest updatesAlmost nine in 10 voters who intend to switch their support from Conservative to Labour candidates in the next gener…
Thinktank says Tories have overseen the biggest increase in taxes during a parliament since records began in 1951UK households are facing an average tax rise of £3,500 a year by the next election, the country’s leading economics thinktank has said – th…
Tanzania government blamed for violence against villagers in national park, while thousands more people face losing their homesThe World Bank is investigating allegations of killings, rape and forced evictions made by villagers living near the site of …
Millions ‘holding on with their fingertips’ due to high interest rates, squeezed wages and Covid costs, says the European TUC boss, Esther LynchWorkers across Europe are “holding on with their fingernails” and face a bleak winter ahead, as high interes…
Survey finds parents under pressure, as second study finds some are leaving workforce because of costsParents of nursery and primary school-age children are facing more than £600 of extra childcare costs a month, a study has found, as employers demand …
Thinktank chief and former MPC member gloomy about stubborn inflation and labour shortages The UK economy will shrink this year and in 2024, according to a report by a leading US thinktank that said stubborn inflation and a shortage of workers would da…
Study in the journal BMJ Public Health suggests premature deaths will rise 6.5% this yearThe cost of living crisis will probably cause thousands of premature deaths in the UK and significantly widen the wealth and health gap between the richest and poo…
Country needs successful firms to grow and struggling ones to shrink, says Resolution FoundationThe UK needs more businesses to fail, or at least shrink, to solve the economy’s long-running productivity crisis, a study has argued.The country’s lack of …
Mental health issues and lack of faith in government support are driving desire to change statusMental distress and financial insecurity has pushed 40% of self-employed workers to say they would switch to a salaried job if they could secure the same in…
Her worst ideas were reversed, but today’s economy is similarly floundering as Sunak prepares for his own autumn budgetImagine an alternative world. Liz Truss has just completed her first year in office this weekend, having miraculously survived when h…