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  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Royal Mail
    Royal Mail cuts Saturday deliveries following service shake-up

    Second-class letters will be delivered on alternate weekdays from end of July

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  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Chris Giles
    Don’t believe the myth: Britain’s services have been hit hard by Brexit

    Export growth has been strong but not lived up to its potential

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  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
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    Onshore wind projects still scarce in England despite planning reforms

    One year on from Labour lifting a de facto ban, few large applications have been made

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  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
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    UK officials hopeful steel industry will avoid 50% US tariff

    Deadline for countries to sign deals with Trump expires on Wednesday

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  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
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    Labour drift won’t solve UK’s two-decade sluggishness

    Party never explained why Tories failed to restore growth — now it struggles to match policies with hard fiscal reality

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  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
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    Forcing pension funds to buy UK assets is ‘form of capital control’, says Lloyds boss

    Charlie Nunn calls on government to tackle housing crisis to provide foundation for Britain’s economic growth

    Charlie Nunn, chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group
  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    Martin Wolf
    The roots of the British malaise lie in a sick economy

    Political responses to a bad situation tend towards either charlatanism or timidity

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  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    UK defence industry
    British-made Typhoon production grinds to a halt raising fears about UK defence skills

    Work on final assembly line has wound down after dearth of new orders for the combat aircraft

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  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
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    Rachel Reeves, the iron chancellor who cried

    Those who know the politician say she isn’t going anywhere — and that Labour can’t afford to lose her

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  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
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    Collapsed owner of Lindsey oil refinery owes up to £250mn in taxes

    Prax Group faced liquidity issues for several years leading up to its unravelling

  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
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    Vaping’s ‘throwaway culture’ has endured despite UK’s single-use ban

    Government drive to cut waste and protect health being undermined by near-identical new products, experts warn

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  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    UK financial regulation
    UK’s City watchdog expands rules on bullying and harassment

    Financial Conduct Authority says more financial services companies will have to report cases of serious misconduct

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  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
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    Nissan seeks payment delays for suppliers as it plans to cut 250 jobs at Sunderland

    Japanese carmaker’s efforts to shore up cash position come amid sweeping turnaround plan

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  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
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    UK disposable income falls at fastest rate since 2023

    Rising wages in the first quarter were offset by increases in tax and inflation

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  • Sunday, 29 June, 2025
    Tennis
    Can covered courts give British tennis its next boost? 

    Sport’s governing body seeks to attract more people by investing in multi-use, urban facilities

    Scott Lloyd, chief executive of the Lawn Tennis Association
  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
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    Nigel Farage pledges to install business chiefs in government if he wins power

    Reform UK wooing the City after executives expressed concern about uncosted policies

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  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    UK economy
    Labour’s national insurance rise is contributing to job market slowdown, BoE governor says

    Andrew Bailey highlights lower labour demand and predicts ‘significant decline’ in wage growth

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  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Associated British Foods PLC
    ABF raises stakes in UK stand-off over bioethanol plant

    Vivergo plant owner says it has started a wind-down consultation in case rescue talks fail

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  • Wednesday, 25 June, 2025
    UK infrastructure
    UK ministers line up £500mn transport package for Universal theme park

    Scale of support for Comcast attraction a sign of government’s desire to attract inward investment

    An artist's rendering of the Universal theme park near Bedford. The image shows a large, vibrant theme park with various attractions, including roller coasters, buildings and a central lake
  • Wednesday, 25 June, 2025
    Lex
    Creativity is one industry where the UK really could work magic Premium content

    Super sector shows how Britain’s perceived cultural soft power punches above its economic weight

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  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    UK employment
    UK graduate job openings at lowest level since 2018

    New data shows employers holding off hiring and seeking to cut costs by using AI

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  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    UK economy
    BoE’s Bailey warns on UK productivity in challenge to Reeves

    Governor ‘sceptical’ about Office for Budget Responsibility assumption over rebound in growth rates

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  • Monday, 23 June, 2025
    Quantum technologies
    UK government to invest more than £500mn in quantum computing

    Cash boost for technology with potential to transform areas ranging from industrial materials to communications security

    Machinery inside a quantum computing centre
  • Monday, 23 June, 2025
    UK industrial strategy
    Energy prices to be cut for businesses as part of UK industrial strategy

    Sectors including automotive, aerospace and chemicals will be exempt from paying green levies on electricity bills

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  • Monday, 23 June, 2025
    UK economy
    UK output price inflation hits 4-year low, survey shows

    Monthly PMI data strengthens case for Bank of England rate cut in August

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