Economic news and events

Housing market activity in the UK picked up as 2024 ended and expectations for the year ahead are ‘solidly positive,’ surveyors have reported.

A net balance...

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has been a ‘monumental strategic failure’, Keir Starmer said as he travelled to the country to sign a new long-term...

Bank of England rate-setter Alan Taylor on Wednesday said UK interest rates may need to be cut five or six times this year to prevent...

Keir Starmer has welcomed the Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal as ‘long-overdue news’ and paid tribute to ‘the British people who were murdered by Hamas.

The...

Talks to form Ireland’s new government have concluded, party representatives said Wednesday, with a three-way coalition set to be unveiled next week.

Two incumbent centre-right parties...

UK troops have touched down in Japan, as the two countries’ senior defence officials meet for talks to strengthen their alliance.

Some 100 UK soldiers have...

The UK is ‘mid-negotiation’ on a revised deal to hand back the Chagos Islands, a minister has said.

Reports had suggested that Mauritian Prime Minister Navin...

Consumer price inflation in the UK slowed by more than expected in December while the decline in producer prices slowed, data published by the Office...

Mauritius’s prime minister is to meet senior government figures, reports have suggested, amid claims that a deal for the UK relinquish control the Chagos Islands...

Two-thirds of chief financial officers at 52 leading retailers said they would raise prices in response to the UK government’s decision to hike employer national...