Economic news and events

[Alliance News] - Ministers in the UK have been urged by a cross-party parliamentary group to delay reforms to farming inheritance tax until 2027 over...

The UK will begin talks with other countries on ‘return hubs’ for failed asylum seekers as the government seeks to crack down on small boats...

Ireland’s goods trade surplus widened dramatically in March, boosted by exports to the US ahead of the tariff announcements at the start of April, data...

UK business investment jumped in the first three months of 2025, recovering strongly from a decline at the end of last year, provisional data from...

UK industrial production was weaker than expected in March, numbers on Thursday showed, while overall growth in the first quarter of 2025 marks the first...

The UK economy grew at a faster pace than anticipated in the first quarter of 2025, while the goods and services trade deficit narrowed further...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer is treading a fine line on UK-EU relations as hard-right populists make gains at a time when Brexit and immigration remain...

The UK cannot afford to adopt an ‘ostrich strategy’ as the US withdraws from guaranteeing European security, the chair of a parliamentary committee has warned.

Matt...

Thousands more civil servants are set to be moved out of London as the UK government seeks to cut costs and ‘radically reform the state’.

Under...

China has criticised the UK-US trade deal in a potential blow to the government’s bid to revive relations with the country.

Beijing said it was a...