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  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    UK energy
    UK government backs away from zonal pricing for electricity

    Ministers will instead explore less radical reforms such as how generators pay to access transmission network

    2 hours ago
    Wind turbines at a wind farm are visible among electricity pylons
  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Biofuels
    Trafigura-owned biodiesel plant to close in new blow to UK industry

    Plan to shut Greenergy unit follows recent collapse of oil refinery in the same area

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  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Gilts
    Pension funds 💔 gilts

    For whom the bell tolls

  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    HM Treasury
    Reeves asks FCA head of communications to review Treasury media operation

    Move comes as UK chancellor prepares to brief Labour MPs on tough fiscal outlook ahead of Autumn Budget

    Helen Bower-Easton
  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Mohamed El-Erian
    The UK should press ahead with the inevitable on tax

    Delays in dealing with fiscal pressures risk further damage to household consumption, corporate investment and overall growth

    Rachel Reeves
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Property sector
    UK landlords quit sector as number of homes to let falls, survey says

    Market drops sharply for 11th straight month in June, according to Rics

    Residential properties in Guildford
  • 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

    Anti-Brexit campaigners protest at Westminster
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    UK energy
    UK set to hold minority stake in Sizewell C nuclear project

    Ministers close in on final deal to secure private investment into multibillion-pound development

    Illustration of the planned Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    UK tax
    Keir Starmer refuses to rule out extending tax-band freeze

    Labour government is battling to fill fiscal hole that some economists say could amount to more than £20bn

    Keir Starmer speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Pensions industry
    BoE governor opposes UK plan to mandate pension scheme investment

    Andrew Bailey’s intervention casts doubt over government’s strategy to potentially force funds to invest in private markets

    Andrew Bailey
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Thames Water
    Thames Water refuses to claw back bonuses despite government threats

    Chair of troubled utility recalled to give evidence to parliamentary committee amid fresh concerns

    A roadworks sign for Thames Water in London, England
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    UK labour disputes
    Resident doctors in England to strike for 5 days in July

    Fresh walkout renews pressure on government’s pledge to cut NHS waiting times

    Junior doctors strike on a picket line outside St Thomas’ Hospital
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Most UK companies would withstand sharply higher tariffs, BoE says

    Central bank officials warn some heavily indebted firms are ‘particularly exposed to global shocks’

    the Bank of England
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    UK property
    Reeves to launch permanent mortgage guarantee scheme

    UK government-backed programme to help buyers with deposits as low as 5%

    UK chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Is the UK’s triple lock pension the carousel that won’t stop?

    Difficulty of curbing growing state spending on a policy tied to broader problem of ageism

    Pensioners and older people at a food market
  • Wednesday, 9 July, 2025
    UK local government finance
    Reform UK targets ‘broken’ system of council funding for special needs

    Party has set up a cost-cutting unit modelled on Elon Musk’s Doge initiative in US

    Learning support assistant with a child in the classroom who has special educational needs and disability
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    News in-depthUK tax
    What is on Rachel Reeves’ menu for raising UK taxes?

    Chancellor could extend freeze on personal thresholds or impose fresh levies on wealthy to fill fiscal hole

    Composite photo showing Rachel Reeves and a dual-axis chart
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    UK public finances
    UK faces ‘daunting’ risks to public finances, OBR warns

    Britain’s ability to respond to future shocks is ‘substantially eroded’ because of high debt, says fiscal watchdog

    City workers pass the Bank of England
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    UK labour disputes
    Resident doctors in England vote for strike action

    Decision by members of British Medical Association puts at risk government pledge to cut NHS waiting times

    Doctors protesting in London during last year’s pay dispute
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Labour’s taxes on wealthy are already doing more harm than good

    Party has boxed itself in and is gaining none of the political credit for introducing non-dom changes

    Rachel Reeves holding the red Budget box
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    UK politics
    Labour MPs hit out at party’s plans for Mitie-sponsored drinks soirée

    Politicians and trade unions warn event is at odds with government’s pledge to expand ‘insourcing’

    The Shard
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    UK politics
    UK investor visa would attract ‘criminals and spies’, campaigners warn

    Ministers considering scheme for people who contribute to areas such as AI and clean energy

    A UK visa stamp is seen on a passport
  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    The Big Read
    The surprising success story of British fibre broadband

    Ofcom’s decision to boost competition in the sector is credited with driving the rollout of a faster, more reliable internet connection

    Montage image of a hand clutching cables, a connectivity symbol and a map of the UK
  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    Employment
    UK seeks to rein in employers’ use of ‘gagging clauses’

    Weinstein whistleblower welcomes changes that will help workers speak out against sexual harassment

    Campaigners from Can’t Buy My Silence and Pregnant Then Screwed, take part in a protest outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London
  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    UK tax
    Downing Street leaves door open to higher UK taxes on the wealthy

    Treasury says it will protect ‘working people’ ahead of what is set to be a painful autumn Budget

    Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer
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