Economic news and events

UK Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq has left the government, Number 10 said.

Siddiq said she had not breached the ministerial code but that continuing in her...

Rachel Reeves insisted the turbulence in the financial markets underlined the need to go ‘further and faster’ in search of economic growth.

The UK chancellor faced...

Rachel Reeves insisted the turbulence in the financial markets underlined the need to go ‘further and faster’ in search of economic growth.

The UK chancellor faced...

The planned Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk could surge in cost to nearly £40 billion, according to reports.

People close to talks over the...

New legislation will modernise how the UK’s ‘insecure and unjust private rented sector’ is regulated, the government has pledged as rental reforms are again debated...

Rental reforms should mean hopeful tenants no longer have to ‘magic up eye-watering sums up front’, campaigners have said, but landlords have claimed the proposals...

Rachel Reeves will move to reassure turbulent markets amid high government borrowing costs as she faces a grilling from MPs on Tuesday.

The UK chancellor will...

Some 120 projects in the UK trialling how artificial intelligence could help small businesses be more productive have been launched by the government in its...

Rachel Reeves is expected at Downing Street for a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday as she continues to face pressure amid market turmoil.

It comes after Keir...

EU leaders will gather in Belgium on February 3 for an exceptional defence ‘retreat’ involving Britain’s prime minister and Nato’s secretary general, two weeks after...