Typically, they face more pressure and exploitation, longer hours, higher prices or charges, they get less state support and face greater discrimination all as part of the war effort. Or, more ...

Using this benchmark, we can attribute 71 percent of the 2025 deficit to spending policy decisions and 29 percent to tax ...

The UK is less susceptible to US tariffs, and not just because it was hit with a lower rate than its EU neighbours. But the impact of a weaker US and European economy could be much more significant.

A decades-long trend of outsourcing democratic decisions to unaccountable institutions like the OBR is leading Britain towards ruin, argues ...

You could blame Truss and her mini-Budget cock-up for giving the OBR the power to wag the government dog with its ...

Construction has seen the fastest reduction in employment numbers in nearly five years, according to S&P Global.

Scotland outperformed the UK as a whole last year, Scottish Government figures published in February showed. Scottish onshore gross domestic product increased by 1.1% in 2024. UK GDP rose by 0.9% last ...

Wall Street suffers its worst day since 2020 but the White House tells investors to "trust in President Trump".

Over the four years of President Biden’s term – from January 2021 through January 2025 – we estimate that he approved $4.7 ...

The DPP, established under Article 120 of the Constitution, holds the critical responsibility of instituting criminal ...

She says that is why it is "absolutely essential" that the government has "returned fiscal stability" to the economy and ...