Libertarians rejoice. While Elon Musk, tech entrepreneur and governmental efficiency tsar, is ripping up the tyranny of bureaucracy in the US, Britain is shuffling ahead with its own bid to cut red ...

Ministers are examining proposals to grant banks access to all of the accounts of benefit claimants, as they try to crack down on fraud to fix a “gaping hole” in the UK welfare system.

The UK’s competition watchdog has provisionally cleared a $570mn corporate travel deal in an unusual reversal of an earlier ...

The owners of Britain’s gas and electricity networks have made billions of pounds in excess returns as a result of a “policy failure” by regulator Ofgem, according to consumer watchdog Citizens Advice ...

The UK will join the global move to cut the time to settle stocks and bonds in late 2027, aligning itself with an EU timetable in an attempt to attract more investors to London’s capital markets. The ...

Companies will be able to hire apprentices who do not have maths and English qualifications under new rules intended to ...

The UK economy unexpectedly grew by 0.1 per cent in the fourth quarter, in a modest boost for Labour as it seeks to fulfil its pledges to re-energise the economy.

Councils will be allowed to award work to small businesses in their communities rather than major national suppliers, under a ...

Explain President Trump’s comment ‘the UK is out of line; I think that one can be worked out. But the European Union, it’s an ...

Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds suggested the UK has too many regulators, as he called on the country’s under-fire competition watchdog to be “more agile”. Reynolds hinted that ministers have ...

The writer is a research associate at the Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics There is much speculation that the UK government will have to cut spending in order to abide by the fiscal ...

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