Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather

Fiscal rules are political theatre. They’re announced as financial disciplines, evidence that the grown-ups are in charge – but gamed when inconvenient and abandoned when reality intrudes.

The Bank has predicted that inflation will increase to around 3.7 per cent in the fourth quarter of this year and 4.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2027.

Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population

The Bank of England has paid commercial banks £100bn in interest on reserves in three years. The EU stopped doing it in 2023 – Dale Vince says Britain must too.

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In an interview with the BBC, Kristalina Georgieva says economic shocks had pushed "debt levels up like a staircase not to heaven".

A global comparison of State Pension provision highlights the onus on individuals in the UK to build pension savings for their retirement, rather than leaving

‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

I was recently asked whether accounting provides a useful way to answer a question that has surrounded Bitcoin since its creation: is it really money? There is an important distinction to make at the...

Economists urge John Healey to press Bank to change policy that is costing the exchequer billions of pounds

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Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...

The party says the money will allow it to fight the next election on a "level playing field", while rivals have renewed calls for donations from individuals to be capped.

Advances in autonomous agents and bitter rivalry between Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed once-fringe fears into the mainstream