There are differences between the economic situation of Britain in 2016 and the United States today. Britain’s economy was ...

Average UK real output per head was rising, therefore, relative to that of its peers. Then, from 2007 to 2024, UK trend ...

Cabinet minister Pat McFadden said the prime minister has been ‘pretty clear’ that the UK won’t be rejoining the customs union ...

A directionless and floundering government has ducked the hard choices at the Autumn Budget, says Simon Wilson ...

Economic analysis shows UK GDP per capita grew up to 10% less than similar nations as firms froze spending and productivity ...

PM Keir Starmer calls for reducing frictions with the EU and defends last week’s budget as key to growth and stability.

By extending the freeze for an extra three years while wages and inflation rise, millions will gradually be pulled into ...

A cross-party consensus that yesterday’s Autumn Statement by Chancellor Rachel Reeves will hurt rather than help the North of ...

British finance minister Rachel Reeves announced a big tax-raising budget that will take more money from workers, people saving for a pension and investors to give herself greater room to meet her ...

In her Budget – which was prefaced by a leaked report – Reeves also confirmed that there will be a £150 cut to the average ...

People on salaries of around £50,000 a year will be squeezed by an extension to the freeze on income tax thresholds that Rachel Reeves is thought to be preparing to announce, the Financial Times ...

The colossal damage from Brexit, in the spotlight again with the publication of new and eye-catching calculations, offers Labour a way out ...