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  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Gilts
    Labour could borrow more without UK bond market backlash, say investors

    Relaxing fiscal rules unlikely to provoke a Liz Truss-style gilts crisis, according to fund managers

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  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Sarah O'Connor
    Zero-hours contracts — an obituary

    These arrangements remain a blight on Britain’s labour market

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  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Childcare
    Staff shortages undermine manifesto plans to boost childcare in England

    Providers say ‘number one concern’ is lack of workers in low-wage sector

    Children sitting in an art classroom being taught by a teacher in the North East of England
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    UK government spending
    Extra £38bn a year needed by 2029-30 to ‘revive’ NHS, says think-tank

    Parties ‘need to be honest’ about scale of investment needed to tackle health service crisis in England, warn analysts

    NHS ambulances outside a hospital in London
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    UK inflation
    UK inflation hits BoE’s 2% target in May

    Rishi Sunak hails ‘very good news’ but markets dial back bets on rate cuts owing to services price pressures

  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Starling Bank Ltd
    Starling steps up legal action against debtors amid defaults and FCA probe

    About 90% of fintech’s outstanding SME loans are guaranteed by UK government

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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    News in-depthUK inflation
    How ‘pub meal’ inflation has hit hopes of UK rate cut

    Price rises for services remain stubbornly high despite the headline rate dropping

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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Chris Giles
    Labour can increase spending without raising tax

    It involves austerity, some quirks in UK fiscal rules and ensuring government action requires private investment

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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Amazon.com
    Amazon’s workers at UK warehouse to vote on union representation

    Results of ballot of 3,000 Coventry-based staff due on July 15

    Amazon workers with GMB union placards during a strike outside the Amazon fulfilment centre in Coventry in January 2023
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Global Economy
    Global inflation and interest rates tracker: see how your country compares

    Inflationary pressures are beginning to wane but not all central banks have taken action yet. See how this affects you

  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Weary Crawley voters stuck in ‘Robin Hood’ economy

    Mixed fortunes in Sussex ‘new town’ dent confidence in main parties’ ability to restore prosperity

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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    UK mortgage rates
    Credit card debt hits UK mortgage affordability

    Outstanding card balances on the rise as interest rates remain high

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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    ExplainerUK general election 2024
    Why UK private equity is ‘encouraged’ by Labour’s signals on promised tax crackdown

    Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves’s comments were received well by those who believe she has opened the door to less harsh options

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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Britain’s broken public services

    Neither Tories nor Labour are being upfront about what is needed to fix them

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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Law
    Serco settles landmark shareholder lawsuit

    Case over share price drop was first of its kind in England to go to trial

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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Andy Haldane
    Post-election, Britain will once again waive the rules

    Self-imposed fiscal constraints risk starving the economy of the investment needed to boost growth

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    John Lewis Partnership PLC
    John Lewis and Waitrose blame shoplifting surge on ‘greed not need’

    Retail group introduces tactics to tackle industry-wide record levels of theft and staff abuse

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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Labour’s private equity tax crackdown to exempt bosses who risk their own capital

    If executives invest their own money in a deal, earnings would be taxed as a capital gain rather than income

    Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    Will we need to pay tax on gifting our Swiss apartment?

    My wife and I would like to gift our flat to our children

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Consumer trends
    Discounting fails to tempt European consumers as cost of living crisis drags on

    Promotions are up but sales remain muted in sign that demand is not recovering

    A shopping trolley full of groceries in a supermarket aisle
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Labour clean energy plan undermined by inadequate funds, says think-tank

    IPPR calls into question party’s pledge to ‘reindustrialise’ UK through state-led investment

    Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves visit Ocean Gate container terminal at Southampton docks
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Brexit
    Labour’s EU plan will have ‘minimal’ impact on cost of Brexit, says think-tank

    UK in a Changing Europe says proposal to improve trading relationship with the bloc would have limited benefit

    Trucks at Dover
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    London drags down UK productivity

    Efficiency gap with rest of the country drops to record low, official figures show

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  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    LexOil
    Proposed North Sea tax hike pours cold water on producers Premium content

    Oil and gas sector warns Labour that its manifesto pledge could kill off investment

    Oil rig on sea horizon
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Nigel Farage’s Reform pledges £88bn in ‘radical’ tax cuts

    Plans ‘do not add up’ and will cost billions of pounds more than claimed, Institute for Fiscal Studies warns

    Reform UK leader Nigel Farage with party chair Richard Tice, left, in Merthyr Tydfil on Monday
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