Economic news and events

Holidaymakers are trimming their budgets this summer and looking for ways to make their money stretch further amid economic and political uncertainty and worries about...

The King is to host French President Emmanuel Macron on a state visit to the UK from July 8-10, Buckingham Palace has announced.

The French leader...

A commitment by pension funds to invest tens of billions in British infrastructure projects and businesses has been welcomed by Rachel Reeves.

The UK chancellor said...

The UK unemployment rate increased slightly in the three months to March while pay growth declined, numbers on Tuesday showed.

The Office for National Statistics...

New home registrations in the UK jumped by more than a third in the first quarter of 2025 compared with the same period a year...

Donald Trump is expected to arrive in the UK as his plane is scheduled to refuel at a US airbase.

Flight restrictions around RAF Mildenhall in...

A deputy governor of the Bank of England has said ‘caution remains appropriate’ in fiscal policy decisions despite a slowdown in UK inflation in recent...

Heathrow Airport said last month was its busiest April on record, as it served nearly 7.1 million passengers.

That is up 5.9% compared with April 2024.

The...

The UK will on Monday host European ministers for ‘critical’ talks on ‘repelling Russian aggression’, two days after Ukraine’s allies demanded that Moscow accept a...

Migrants will be told they need to spend up to a decade in the UK before they can apply for citizenship and English language requirements...