The unexpected increase eases pressure on the government, which has been trying to spur investment and development.

The state pension is under increasing pressure as payments could soon reach £13,000 a year. Payments are increasing 4.1% in ...

The economy is hardly in good health and another quarter bumping along the bottom is not the growth the government has ...

Britain's economy unexpectedly grew by 0.1% in the final quarter of last year, official figures showed, offering some respite ...

A 3.7% uplift would see the full new state pension rise from £230.25 a week to £238.75 a week, or £12,415 a year, marking an ...

The growing pressures of paying for the state pension means the triple lock could soon come under scrutiny, an expert has ...

Investors grappled with a gloomy set of Bank of England forecasts on Thursday that complicate the outlook for UK assets, with ...

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has posted a 78-page report outlining its musings on the future for inflation ...

Sir Keir Starmer has come under fire at PMQs over the cost of the government's deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to ...

Sir Keir Starmer had been accused of "bending the knee" to Mauritius after the country's leader said the UK prime minister ...

About 85,000 offenders in England and Wales will get an extra £1 a week to help them stay on the ‘straight and narrow’ ...