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Administrator BTG says 738,144 firms struggling as calls grow for more support for private sector in budgetThe number of UK businesses in financial distress has hit its highest level in more than two...
British Retail Consortium says ‘dam is starting to break on the huge wave of costs’ being kept from consumersShop price inflation has risen to the highest level in two and a half years, according to t...
Terry Barker says nationalisation changes who owns the shares, it does not change the rules, while James Wallace says the powers to intervene already exist. Plus a letter from Philip ClaytonAndy Burnh...
Application made for group claim seeking compensation for companies for alleged overcharging on customer card paymentsVisa and Mastercard are being threatened with a potential £5bn lawsuit for alleged...
V2G tech enables drivers to charge automatically when electricity is cheaper and then sell some back to the grid at times of high demandElectric cars that can be used as “power plants on wheels” could...
Jump fuelled by fears of further Middle East supply disruptions amid reports of US-Israeli plans to strike Iran European gas prices have jumped to levels not seen since 2022 as fears continue to grow...
Ninety-plus Labour MPs warn civil service lacks skills to drive growth where it is needed and plan should be steered by Louise Haigh from ManchesterAndy Burnham’s pledge to reindustrialise Britain is...
A stretch of London’s Oxford Street is to be vehicle-free as part of £150m government-backed schemeMuch of Britain’s most famous shopping street will be closed to traffic from Monday as the long-await...
Exclusive: Ministers planning overhaul of apprenticeship funding to increase cost of over-25s training, Guardian understandsBritain’s largest employers have told the government that forcing businesses...
Chancellor is in favour of North Sea project, but energy secretary has said she is leaning towards rejecting itA cabinet split has emerged over whether to approve drilling at the Rosebank oilfield, wi...
Experts say Bank of England unlikely to increase rates by full percentage point – and could lower them by end of 2027Financial markets are wrong to predict the Bank of England will raise UK interest...
Exclusive: research for the Guardian shows ‘pre-pack’ deals with former management also pay far less to creditorsThe boss whose twice-bust business appears to be backInsolvent businesses reacquired by...
Andrew Woosnam took millions from his recruitment firms before creditors, including HMRC, were left out of pocket• Companies revived in ‘phoenix’ deals more likely to fail, study findsFor three decade...
In the third article in a series on high-end British manufacturing, we visit the Ettinger factory in Walsall‘Our town is making jeans again’: reviving jobs and skills in WalesFrom feathers to pet port...
Chancellor will build on Burnham’s promise that local leaders in England will no longer have to ‘come cap in hand to Westminster’You be the chancellor: play our budget game to see if you can balance t...
Lobby group’s figures, shared with John Healey, are misleading as they do not include major rival Paris, say campaignersA banking lobby group has been accused of cherrypicking data and trying to misle...
The chancellor has promised ‘breathing space’ for households and small businesses but global events cannot be ignoredYou be the chancellor: play our budget game to see if you can balance the booksEver...
Closures within chain formerly under the WH Smith brand raise fears of high streets becoming ‘postal deserts’Towns and even city centres face being left as “postal deserts” after it emerged that more...
Exclusive: Angela Eagle tells utility bosses next price review ‘must focus on value for money for customers’Ministers will make an unprecedented intervention in water bills and how companies prioritis...
Latest negative economic update comes as John Healey prepares to announce budget next weekRetail sales in Great Britain fell more steeply than expected last month, the latest negative economic update...