Economic news and events

A Conservative minister has defended Rishi Sunak and the party after two by-election defeats, saying they were set against a ‘very difficult backdrop’.

The losses to...

UK opposition leader Keir Starmer has said Labour would seek a new security pact with the EU if it wins the next election.

It comes amid...

China and the UK should ‘strengthen exchanges and cooperation’, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi told his British counterpart on the sidelines of the Munich Security...

UK retail sales growth comfortably topped forecasts in January, numbers on Friday showed, in an encouraging reading of an economy which fell into recession at...

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has suffered a double defeat at the Wellingborough and Kingswood by-elections, with opposition leader Keir Starmer hailing the results as...

The Assembly’s new Stormont brake committee will have scope to assess the impact of Northern Ireland being left in regulatory limbo if it diverges from...

Jeremy Hunt has insisted there is ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ if the UK government sticks to its plan after figures showed Britain’s...

Irish consumer price inflation slowed annually in January from a month earlier, according to the Central Statistics Office on Thursday.

The annual rate of inflation slowed...

Voters in the UK will head to the polls in two by-elections that could give an indication of the scale of the challenges facing the...

The UK’s trade deficit narrowed slightly at the end of last year, numbers on Thursday showed, as imports fell faster than exports.

According to the...