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  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    UK companies
    Audit fees for UK-listed companies up 75% since 2018, study finds

    Lack of competition and a regulatory drive to improve quality drive costs higher

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  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    News in-depthUK employment
    Labour’s worker rights shake-up leaves UK business on edge

    Overhaul planned by main opposition party could backfire and end up harming employees and bosses, say executives

    1 hour ago
    A montage of the Labour party logo and a woman holding a sign that says ‘Don’t gut my salary’
  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    UK energy
    UK ministers must ‘move faster’ on net zero energy reforms, warns infrastructure tsar

    Sir John Armitt accuses Whitehall of taking ‘too long’ to decide on measures to support decarbonisation

    Biomass domes at Drax Power Station UK
  • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
    Global Economy
    Global house prices rebound as economists predict turning point

    Across the 37 industrialised OECD countries, nominal house prices grew 2.1% in the third quarter of 2023

    An aerial view of houses in Macot in Sydney
  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
    Personal Finance
    ‘Stealth’ expats fail to keep HMRC in the loop

    Tax authority figures show a sharp drop in those working abroad. Experts point to a rise in informal arrangements

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  • Saturday, 24 February, 2024
    UK labour disputes
    Junior doctors in England willing to consider lower pay rise this year, says union

    Suggestion that striking NHS staff would not pursue original demand for 35% increase comes ahead of 5-day strike

    Junior doctors on a picket line in Newcastle last month
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    UK politics
    Sunak touts ‘green shoots’ of economic recovery ahead of Budget

    PM says ‘things are getting better’ as he tries to reassure Tories they are not doomed to election defeat

    Rishi Sunak addresses the Welsh Conservative conference on Friday
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Final salary schemes
    Ministers set out plans to ease access to UK pension scheme surpluses

    Proposals come after recent period of rising interest left majority of defined benefit plans in the black

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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    UK immigration
    New UK worker visa rules to close system to employers in key shortage areas

    Warning by government migration adviser comes ahead of sharp rise in salary floors for overseas hires

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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Andy Street
    Birmingham’s cuts are the price of political failure

    Innocent citizens will be paying a lot more for a lot less, but in Brum, being down is not the same as being out

    People walk past an empty shop in Birmingham. Poor decision-making at local authority level can have dire consequences
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    UK society
    Birth rate drops to new low in England and Wales

    Fertility level falls to 1.49 children per woman in 2022, well below rate needed to maintain a population without immigration

    A baby boy is weighed in hospital
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    UK energy
    Household energy bills to fall as Ofgem reduces price cap by 12%

    Typical household will pay £1,690 a year, still well above levels before energy crisis

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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Markets InsightToby Nangle
    Public service pensions are the elephant in the room

    Asset-backing these promises could lift investment and growth

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    Investments
    Free reader event: How to make the most of Isas

    Sign up for lunchtime webinar with Claer Barrett and panel on the benefits of tax-free investing

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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    ExplainerUK tax
    Why Jeremy Hunt’s parent tax rate is proving controversial

    UK chancellor has promised ‘smart’ cuts in his Budget that reward work

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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    UK consumer confidence falls amid concern over persistent inflation

    GfK index declines by two points in February after three months of improvements

    Shoppers in Birmingham
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    UK interest rates
    UK mortgage rates tick up as race towards cheaper deals eases

    A number of high street lenders have increased cost of home loans in recent weeks

    A street with semi-detached houses in Guildford, England
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    UK business activity beats expectations in February

    Survey fuels hopes that recession could already be over despite renewed price pressures

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  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
    Rolls-Royce profits double as turnaround gathers pace

    Shares in UK engine maker jump as group raises forecasts for year

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  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    UK trade
    If a services export collapses in the woods, and nobody hears it for ages, does it make a discourse?

    Other stands for discomfort

  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    UK manufacturing
    Vauxhall owner Stellantis to make electric vans at Luton plant

    Carmaker plans ‘limited’ production of battery vehicles from next year but full conversion of site depends on state support

    An Opel van on the assembly line at the Vauxhall plant in Luton
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Personal Finance
    How will the 2024 Budget affect you?

    FT Money seeks readers’ views before and after the chancellor’s statement

    Jeremy Hunt, the UK chancellor, with the red Budget box
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Property sector
    Hunt draws up plans for 99% mortgage scheme

    UK chancellor’s move aims to reassure voters that Conservatives represent the interests of homeowners

    People look at houses for sale in the window of an estate agent
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    News in-depthUK inflation
    How ‘dodgy’ jobs data hit the UK’s battle against inflation 

    Flawed labour market survey has left rate-setters unsure on even basic questions such as the level of unemployment

  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Brexit
    Food industry warns ‘Not for EU’ labelling will deter investment in UK

    Post-Brexit requirement will put up costs for British manufacturers, says Food and Drink Federation

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