Royal Mail workers are striking on multiple days across the next few months, with people warned to expect delays to their parcels and letters. Around 115,000...
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As Liz Truss faces open revolt in her party over her planned tax cuts, her chancellor will today try to reassure the IMF that everything is under control...
Mini-budget ‘complicated’ Bank of England’s battle to bring down inflation, says IMF chief economist
The chancellor’s mini-budget “complicated matters” for the Bank of England as it battled to bring down inflation, the International Monetary...
A leading City lawyer has been shortlisted to become the next chief executive of the competition watchdog. Sky News has learnt that Ali Nikpay, a partner at...
UK government borrowing costs have hit a 20-year high after the Bank of England confirmed its emergency bond-buying programme will end on Friday as planned. On...
The economic credibility of the government has come under siege on financial markets since last month’s tax-cutting mini-budget. While the value of the...
Wasps rugby club has said it is likely to “enter administration in the coming days”, deepening a crisis within top flight English rugby. The club...
Jacob Rees-Mogg has declared his confidence in the governor of the Bank of England, but disputed that pension funds are at “systemic” risk...
The problem for a government that sets a target to grow the economy above all else is that every month it gets a scorecard on progress, and this morning it...
The Bank of England’s governor has ruled out extending its bond-buying support for pension funds beyond Friday’s deadline, prompting a dramatic...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted a tough 2023 as it cut growth predictions and forecast economic contraction in a third of the world...
The Bank of England has warned of “a material risk to UK financial stability” as it widened its programme to buy up government bonds. The move has...
The pace of price rises for essential groceries has hit a new record high, according to a report looking at changes to shopping habits. Grocery inflation is...
The number of people who are out of work due to long-term sickness has risen to a record high, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...
The Bank of England has warned of “a material risk to UK financial stability” and “dysfunction” in part of the pension market despite...
The government’s mini-budget has left it facing such a large black hole in the public finances that the most credible way of filling it is severe...
