Wales is to have a "new, stand-alone regulator" for the water sector following the scrapping of Ofwat, ministers have ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has insisted there is "no recession" on the horizon, despite dire economic warnings from Bank of ...

The good news is that the Treasury seems to have acknowledged that another Budget-induced inflationary surge would be counter ...

Britain has two fiscal rules, but only one really matters, and that is the requirement that the government only borrows for investment over the medium term. More precisely, it requires the government ...

High inflation also adds to the government's debt bill - Britain has a bigger proportion of its bonds indexed to inflation ...

There is a joke about the economist who predicted 10 of the last five recessions. I am loathe to be a prophet of doom but ...

Leeds is now firmly established as the UK’s Northern Powerhouse of financial services, with the city and the wider West ...

The prediction, from S&P Global, marks a sharp climb from August's 3.8% rate and is double the Bank of England's (BoE) 2% ...

In yet more evidence of the harmful impact of Brexit, the head of the Bank of England has warned that the decision to leave the EU will damage the UK economy “for the foreseeable future”. In a speech ...

Japan’s Diet could elect a new PM, UK’s Labour will pick a deputy leader and Ireland set to get a new president ...