A major speech Wednesday promises a host of pro-growth policies to turn the UK economy around. But the hurdles in the chancellor’s way are huge.

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Revival of dialogue is a positive step with London badly seeking to boost the national economy and Beijing reaching out under shadow of Donald Trump.

The Chancellor is expected to meet the heads of major international banks during her two-day visit to the Swiss town on Wednesday and Thursday in an effort to tout the UK as an investment opportunity

The United Kingdom Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, gave a speech yesterday in Oxford in which she emphasised the importance of political and

In a major speech in Oxford yesterday, the Chancellor said she was prepared to 'fight' with opponents who stand in the way of her reforms.

Rachel Reeves reached far and wide as she sought to revive the UK’s flagging economy with wind turbines, roads, airports, railways, trade deals, and proposed reforms to pensions, planning and the welfare system.

HSBC Chairman Mark Tucker leaned into the microphone at a vast conference table in Beijing, telling British business leaders and senior Chinese officials that he spoke for all UK businesses present in hoping for stronger economic ties.

Starmer’s Government is re-making the age-old mistakes in China diplomacy all over again. Those who frame the debate as a choice between whether or not to engage Beijing are proposing a false dichotomy. It is not about whether to talk or trade with China, but how? On whose terms, with what criteria, on what conditions and with what objectives?

"Reeves pledges to create 'Europe's Silicon Valley'", reads the Guardian headline, referring to Chancellor Rachel Reeves "push for growth", which features on many of Wednesday's front pages. The paper says she will reveal plans to create a tech hub between Oxford and Cambridge,

Rachel Reeves to pledge to ‘fight’ for growth in economic speech - The Chancellor will claim the so-called ‘Oxford-Cambridge growth corridor’ has ‘the potential to be Europe’s Silicon Valley’.

Shares for leading US chip firm Nvidia dropped by almost 17% on Monday after the emergence of DeepSeek stunned Silicon Valley.