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High interest rates could add billions to UK green energy…
A permanent shift to higher interest rates could add billions of pounds to the UK’s renewable energy transition, a leading thinktank has warned.Borrowing cost
Hipgnosis in takeover battle as UK music investor says it…
The troubled owner of music back catalogues ranging from Beyoncé to Neil Young has said that it would accept a takeover offer from Blackstone, after the privat
Britain on the edge as memories of Truss refuse to…
Yet the patient is not responding. If the IMF were sitting in judgment it would have found the Government to have already breac
End times for the UK’s final coal-fired power station
From the northernmost reaches of the River Soar in Nottinghamshire, the towers of Britain’s last coal-fired power station emerge from the flat countryside lik
Ocado under pressure to abandon London for New York
City sources believe Ocado founder and chief executive Tim Steiner could be persuaded to consider a move to the States amid lon
Asda’s billionaire bosses knew payroll switch would spark crisis –…
Asda’s billionaire bosses forged ahead with a botched IT transition despite being warned in advance that thousands of workers
Even a ‘rate shock’ for British mortgage borrowers may not…
Mortgage borrowers who had been holding out for more affordable rates had their hopes dashed last week, as disappointing economic data raised the likelihood of
Pension funds brace for £30bn hit from Gove leasehold reforms
Pension funds are braced for a hit worth tens of billions of pounds as Michael Gove, the levelling up secretary, tries to salvage his ambition of
UK airline emissions on track to reach record high in…
Emissions from UK flights are rapidly returning to pre-pandemic levels, with CO2 pollution from aviation on track to reach a record high this year.The increase
The EU has finally admitted it needs Britain more than…
If we rewind to the heyday of free movement, the traffic was overwhelmingly one-way. The government estimated that three millio
Brexit plans in ‘complete disarray’ as EU import checks delayed,…
Businesses have described Britain’s Brexit border plans as being in “complete disarray” after it emerged the introduction of some checks on EU imports wil
UK sets high standards on financial regulation but better global…
The UK is leading the way in transparency and accountabililty in financial regulation but international benchmarks are needed to evaluate t
