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  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Kemi Badenoch
    Nigeria’s vice-president launches attack on Badenoch

    Kashim Shettima’s comments follow criticism by Conservative leader of country where she grew up

    Kashim Shettima and Kemi Badenoch
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Reform party UK
    Property magnate Nick Candy joins Reform UK in latest Tory defection

    Former Conservative donor promises to raise ‘tens of millions’ as he takes on role of party treasurer

    Nigel Farage and Nick Candy outside Millbank TV studios in London
  • 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
    Financial Conduct Authority UK
    UK regulator behaved ‘unfairly’ over mis-selling scandal redress scheme, court told

    FCA ‘shut out’ businesses wrongly sold products designed to protect against interest rate changes, High Court hears

    The FCA logo
  • 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
    Blackstone Group LP
    Blackstone’s purchase of London’s ‘Can of Ham’ skyscraper falls through

    US investment group had been in exclusive talks to buy office building for about £300mn

    Can of Ham office tower
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    UK energy
    EU advises members not to give UK greater access to energy market

    Brussels says its ‘no cherry picking’ rule should apply to co-operation on electricity trading

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  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Shell PLC
    Shell and Greenpeace settle ‘Cousin Greg’ lawsuit over protesters boarding vessel

    Environmental group to give £300,000 to charity and stay away from four North Sea platforms for at least five years

    Greenpeace activists in an inflatable boat, carrying a flag that says “Stop drilling, start paying”, approaching a Shell platform
  • 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

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  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Lisa Nandy’s baffling theory for TV success is all stick, no substance

    Culture secretary’s push for greater diversity speaks to Labour’s misguided belief that ‘being nice’ delivers growth

    Lisa Nandy
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Ashtead Group PLC
    Ashtead plans to move listing to New York in fresh blow to London

    Construction equipment group generates most of its profits in North America

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  • 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

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  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    UK financial regulation
    MPs should quiz ‘finfluencers’, says Treasury select committee chair

    Meg Hillier highlights concern over people turning to ‘some random on TikTok’ for financial guidance

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  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
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    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
    John Gapper
    Christie’s has brought the dinosaur auction show to London

    Scientists have been priced out by billionaires in the global market for prehistoric fossils

    Three dinosaur skeletons
  • 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

  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Renewable energy
    Renewable electricity to overtake fossil fuels in UK this year

    Wind closes in on gas as largest single generation source, study finds

    An aerial view of a solar park
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    UK universities
    Students priced out of London as rents rise faster than loans

    Pressure on government to take action over the ‘cost of learning crisis’ in the UK capital

    London Metropolitan University
  • 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
    Syrian crisis
    Several EU nations and the UK pause asylum claims from Syrians

    Fall of Assad regime prompts immigration rethink in Europe

    Expatriate Syrians gather with flags in Berlin on Sunday to celebrate the fall of the Assad regime
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    News in-depthWhitehall reform
    Labour minister echoes Cummings with call to shake up civil service

    Government officials appear to share some of the analysis of maverick former No 10 adviser

    Pat McFadden
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Political espionage
    Bulgarian who spied for Russia in UK discussed sale of drones to Chinese contact, court told

    Old Bailey sees messages from Orlin Roussev to Jan Marsalek about selling US-made Switchblade devices

    Jan Marsalek (L) and Orlin Roussev (R)
  • 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
    Insider trading
    Signs of UK insider trading fell to five-year low in 2023, FCA says

    Financial regulator finds suspicious stock market moves took place before 30% of takeover announcements

    Stock price information displayed in the London Stock Exchange Group’s office atrium in the City of London
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