Economy

The declaration of more US tariffs by Donald Trump has rocked the world economy, especially in the United Kingdom. Claiming that the tariffs imposed as part of his aggressive overhaul …

Axa and Scottish Widows, among other major investors, are supporting shareholder resolutions calling for UK stores Next, Marks & Spencer (M&S), and JD Sports to pay thousands of employees more. …

Next, annual pre-tax earnings of over £1 billion were recorded for the first time, a 10% increase to just over £1 billion for the year ending in January. Driven chiefly …

With UK inflation down to 2.8%, there is a sliver of hopeful economic news before the chancellor’s spring speech. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) reports that last month’s annual …

As economic confidence falls ahead of the forthcoming spring statement, UK consumers are tightening their belts and reducing daily expenses. According to a poll, people are changing their purchasing patterns …

As part of Labour’s latest attempt to reduce what it views as unnecessary government expenditure in the civil service, thousands of Whitehall officials will have their government procurement cards (GPCs) …

Former shadow chancellor Ed Balls has criticised the government’s plans to cut disability benefits, stating on his podcast that the policy is “not going to work.” He argued that reducing disability benefits for …

Britain’s benefits system is the “worst of all worlds,” with the number of people out of work or training deemed “indefensible and unfair,” according to the Prime Minister. As part …

An organized network operating from the former Soviet state of Georgia has scammed thousands of savers from the UK, Europe, and Canada out of $35 million (£27 million) in a …

The question of whether $350 billion in frozen Russian assets should be seized and subsequently made available to the US for the purchase of defence hardware has caused tensions between …