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  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    John Gapper
    James Dyson is right to fight for British strawberries

    The UK’s largest commercial farmer is trying to create a berry brand against intense global competition

    Dan Stockhill programming the robot picking arm machines
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    UK energy
    UK ministers consider biggest ever renewable subsidy auction

    Discussions come as government seeks to meet 2030 clean power target

    Wind turbines and electricity pylons on a wind farm at Little Cheyne Court in Romney, in the south of England
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Property sector
    Demand for UK rented properties falls for first time since pandemic

    Surveyors also find estate agents are expecting the slowest growth in rental costs in almost four years

    Homes available for rent in Brighton
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    UK government spending
    More than 10,000 UK civil service jobs to be cut

    Voluntary redundancies expected across Whitehall as departments respond to chancellor’s spending review

    Whitehall street sign
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    UK government spending
    UK ministers reject union calls to lift public sector pay to pre-austerity levels

    Downing Street says wages can rise above inflation only with productivity gains to match

    Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) on the picket line outside St Thomas’ Hospital
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Business leaders warn Reeves about the impact of her Budget tax rises

    Banking, energy and transport executives voice concerns in meeting with UK chancellor

    Rachel Reeves at the meeting this morning
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    UK agriculture
    Farmers gather in Whitehall in latest protest against UK Budget tax changes

    Tractors park up in main London thoroughfare in rally opposing government inheritance tax reforms

    Tractors are driven through Westminster on Wednesday
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Global Economy
    Inflation and interest rates tracker: see how your country compares

    Inflationary pressures are beginning to wane but not all central banks have taken action yet. See how this affects you

  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Rail
    St Pancras owner lays out plan to boost Channel passenger numbers

    Study shows it’s possible to increase capacity from 1,800 travellers an hour to nearly 5,000, says HS1

    International passengers queuing at St Pancras
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    UK government spending
    UK public sector workers face fresh pay restraint as Treasury takes tough stance

    Whitehall departments say rises of more than 2.8% for NHS staff and teachers in 2025-26 would be unaffordable

    Protest during joint strike action by train drivers, teachers, university staff and civil servants, in Leeds under last government
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Martin Wolf
    Reckoning with an era of slow growth

    Opportunities exist for the UK and its European neighbours, but they must grasp the nettle of economic reform

    James Ferguson illustration of John Bull riding a penny farthing bicycle with a square-shaped back wheel up a climbing red chart line, as a British bulldog looks on
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    LexThames Water
    Thames Water is nearing a market-led solution — but at what cost?

    Ministers and the regulator might be close to victory in this first round of chicken

    Thames Water vans parked on a road in London
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    UK local government finance
    Birmingham equal pay deal raises doubt over council’s bankruptcy

    Authority to pay about £250mn to settle historic dispute, far less than previously expected

  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Infrastructure investment
    Thames Water boss says break-up would be a distraction

    Chief executive Chris Weston says utility focused on raising debt and equity to help avert cash crunch

    A picture of Thames Water’s logo on a manhole cover
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    UK government spending
    Review of £1.2tn in UK public spending will ‘be tight’, minister warns

    Treasury chief secretary Darren Jones launches line-by-line assessment to find 5% savings

    Darren Jones and Rachel Reeves during a visit to Maidstone hospital on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    UK employment
    Workers in England more likely to be overqualified than global peers, finds OECD

    More than 1 in 3 employees surveyed say their qualifications are higher than job requires

    Student at graduation
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Sarah O'Connor
    Economists need to get their story straight on immigration

    Focusing on the impact on the wages or employment levels of native workers is too narrow

    Farm workers in overalls and hairnets sort through freshly cut asparagus
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    HS2
    Euston HS2 project costs rise to more than £7.5bn

    Price of extending high-speed rail line into central London set out in confidential government documents

    Euston station and the HS2 building site.
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    UK employment
    Hiring falls more sharply in UK than other major economies

    Slowdown in British recruitment unusual because it involves low-wage sectors, according to data from website Indeed

  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    UK local government finance
    Birmingham to settle equal pay claim that tipped council into bankruptcy

    Payout likely to be lower than original top-end estimate of £760mn which has led to steep service cuts and asset sales

    Council House in Victoria Square, Birmingham
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    UK trade
    Reeves calls on EU to give greater access for City of London

    Plea comes in first appearance by a UK chancellor at a Euro finance meeting since Brexit

    Rachel Reeves
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    UK financial regulation
    BoE warns that hedge funds bring ‘vulnerabilities’ to gilt market

    Deputy governor Ramsden says leverage and concentration in certain funds could lead to ‘system-wide risks’

  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    UK house prices
    England house prices ‘affordable’ only for richest 10% in 2022-23

    Office for National Statistics data highlights property market pressures

    People walk past property notices displayed at a real estate agency
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Martin Wolf
    The benefits and limits of privatisation

    We can draw important lessons from the UK’s varied experience

    Holidaymakers play and relax on Borth Beach next to a storm overflow pipe that discharges into the sea
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Water Services Regulation Authority UK
    Ofwat employed consultants that also worked for water groups

    Embattled regulator for England and Wales faces accusation of conflict of interest

    A woman walks past a fence featuring Thames Water imagery
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