Economic news and events

Keir Starmer has hailed a ‘seismic result’ for Labour after his party overwhelmingly won Scotland’s first recall by-election.

Labour candidate Michael Shanks won the Rutherglen and...

The decline in UK retail footfall worsened last month, in a ‘subdued’ end to the third-quarter, numbers on Friday showed, with focus now turning to...

The opposition Labour cannot commit to building HS2’s northern leg if it wins the next election after the UK government ‘took a wrecking ball’ to...

Irish premier Leo Varadkar has spoken of his concerns that the UK is ‘disengaging from the world’.

The Taoiseach commented on language coming from the Conservative...

The Irish budget will offer support for people struggling with high electricity bills this winter, the taoiseach has said.

Leo Varadkar said details of the energy...

The UK van market continued to grow in September, the Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders reported Thursday.

Registrations in September climbed 28% annually to 44,760...

The UK construction sector fell back into contraction last month, survey data revealed on Thursday, with a decline seen across all three major segments.

The...

The UK is ‘in reverse gear’ in the global race for green growth, a think tank has warned.

A lack of a green industrial strategy means...

The legal age for buying tobacco should rise every year to stop youngsters taking up smoking, the prime minister has said as he also pledged...

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak axed the HS2 project from Birmingham to Manchester and promised to use the £36 billion of savings to fund hundreds...