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Senior economists and ex-chancellor George Osborne round on former PM after she says Treasury officials raised no concernsSenior economists and the former chancellor George Osborne have cast doubt over Liz Truss’s account that she was not warned about …
Total is far higher than what economists expected even as Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates to bring down inflationThe US job market added 517,000 jobs in January, a huge gain for the labor market even as the Federal Reserve has pushed …
Inflation should be back within Bank’s 2% target range by middle of 2024, Huw Pill addsThe Bank of England is alive to the risk of pushing interest rates too high, its chief economist has signalled, adding to expectations that it could be nearing the e…
Hike of 0.5 percentage points lifts rates to 14-year high, but BoE says shorter and shallower recession now more likelyInterest rates rise again but Bank of England hints at a brighter futureThe Bank of England raised interest rates for a tenth consecu…
Tories blamed for creating economic ‘doom loop’ that fails to recognise negative impact of spending cutsThe failure of successive Conservative governments to recognise the negative impact of public spending cuts on the wider economy has meant Britain m…
Differing experts have urged the Monetary Policy Committee to both cut interest rates and to raise themTurn up. Take the temperature of the economy. Raise interest rates. That’s the been the pattern from the responsible technocrats at the Bank of Engla…
University leaders fear billions being lost as a result of battles within government over immigration policyVice-chancellors fear billions of pounds could be lost because of new restrictions on international students, the result of internal government …
Average cost of home now 3.2% below August 2022 peak as mortgage demand slumpsHouse prices in the UK continued to fall in January, sliding for the fifth month in a row, according to Nationwide, pushing the average cost of a home 3.2% below the peak se…
Tougher rules have boosted employment but jobs offer scant career progression and contribute little to tax revenueTougher benefit rules have boosted employment in the UK in the past 25 years but only at the expense of trapping workers in dead-end jobs,…
Conservative Growth Group rises out of ashes of shortest-serving PM’s tenure, but Truss herself is keeping a low profile publiclyPolitical rehabilitation is a gruelling exercise: no more so than for Liz Truss, who was consigned to the history books as …