Economic news and events

Keir Starmer set out plans to tear up planning red tape, reform the economy and restore trust in politics in a sweeping set of changes...

The UK’s new Labour government pledged Wednesday to ensure all major budget decisions are subject to ‘independent assessment’, after Conservative prime minister Liz Truss’s unverified...

The UK consumer price inflation remained at the Bank of England’s target after nearly three years of loftier readings, numbers on Wednesday showed.

According to...

Labour will ‘take the brakes off Britain’ when it unveils its first King’s Speech on Wednesday, Keir Starmer has said.

The new government is set to...

Elections across the world have increased ‘uncertainty’ over economic growth amid concerns over ‘significant swings’ in policy from new governments, the International Monetary Fund has...

The UK government is poised to present a ‘packed’ legislative agenda focused on economic growth in the King’s Speech on Wednesday.

Downing Street said the prime...

Four Welsh ministers have quit the government in protest at First Minister Vaughan Gething’s leadership, telling him they cannot get on with the job ‘without...

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds will say a ‘confident, outward-looking’ UK is ‘open for business’ at the G7 trade ministers’ meeting.

He will set out the new...

Top officials from Britain and the EU on Monday held their first face-to-face talks in Brussels as the new Labour government looks to ‘reset’ ties...

The new EU relations minister in the UK is heading to Brussels to stress the Labour government’s commitment to ‘resetting the relationship’ with the bloc.

Nick...