All news on the topic: British economy

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'Only ones who benefit from more drilling are energy firms - and Rishi Sunak'
We have enough green energy to power Britain many times over, it will never run out and there is no global market setting the price for it
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Interest rate rise a 'hammer blow' - here's my plan to rescue UK economy
After the Bank of England hiked interest rates for the 14th consecutive time, taking the base level to 5.25%, Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves writes exclusively for the Mirror on how Labour would ease families' plight
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'I'm a headteacher - I've taken my kids on term-time holidays and so should you'
A headteacher and dad of three boys has admitted taking his children on unauthorised term-time holidays and says he understands why parents do during the cost of living crisis
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Rishi Sunak relaxes visa rules for foreign builders as we haven't trained enough
The PM faces more blue-on-blue anger after the Home Office confirmed that bricklayers, roofers, carpenters, joiners and plasterers are among those who will now benefit from relaxed visa rules
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'If Labour promises to spend, everyone but the Tories would be delighted'
The austerity dogma doesn't work, and the nation knows it says Fleet Street Fox. Keir Starmer needs to spend for Labour to gain full power
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Labour donor warns dire economic growth is harming voters’ trust in democracy
Businessman John Mills has written a pamphlet outlining how he believes the economy can be rebooted - and it includes chasing a growth target rather than an inflation goal
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Dithering ministers holding back hopes of UK space launch, scathing report finds
The UK is 'on the cusp' of establishing Europe's first small satellite orbital launch capability, the Commons Science, Innovation and Technology Committee said - but 'disjointed' planning is holding it back
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Overhauling sick pay rules would pump billions into British economy, say experts
A report for the Centre for Progressive Change think tank outlines how reforming the system could deliver benefits for businesses, workers and the Treasury
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'Fortune favours the bold - Starmer knows he won't be forgiven if Labour lose'
Haunted by ghosts of Neil Kinnock in 1992 and Ed Miliband in 2010, defeat snatched from the jaws of victory is the nightmare of increasingly optimistic Labour Shadow Cabinet Ministers
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Tory wrecking ball Liz Truss to launch worldwide task force on the economy
The flash-in-a-pan former PM will head a new Growth Commission, made of economists from around the globe, in a bid to address a "stagnation loop" facing the West
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NHS and railways are top sectors that will benefit from a better 5G network
Economic modelling predicts that the UK economy could see a boost of £5bn a year from the roll-out of 5G-enabled technologies by 2030
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Primary kids must get careers classes to stop them ruling themselves out of jobs
The Commons Education Committee found that teaching children about the world of work at an early age would help raise aspirations - and stop them deciding against jobs based on gender or background
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A million people cut back or cancel internet packages in cost of living crisis
A House of Lords committee has raised fears about 'digital exclusion' as families try to cut bills with household budgets hammered by inflation and rising mortgage costs
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Steelworkers march on Parliament in last-ditch bid to save 'crumbling' industry
Staff from Britain's six steelmaking firms will converge on Westminster for a rally minutes before Prime Minister's Questions
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Just one in five Brexit voters thinks it's going well as anniversary looms
A major study by the UK in a Changing Europe think tank and pollsters Public First lays bare 'bregrets' seven years after Britain voted to leave the EU
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What we learned on day austerity chief Osborne gave evidence to Covid Inquiry
The former Chancellor's evidence under oath came just 24 hours after his ex-boss David Cameron became the first politician to face the Inquiry - and was heckled with cries of 'shame on you'
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Labour could post more diplomats to India to boost trade, says David Lammy
Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy will outline his blueprint for 'economic diplomacy' when he addresses the Trade Unlocked conference in Birmingham today
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David Cameron heckled 'shame on you' after defending Tory cuts at Covid Inquiry
David Cameron faced questions over the austerity cuts to public services under his leadership between 2010 and 2016 as he became the first politician to be grilled by the Covid Inquiry
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'Everywhere we look, there are good reasons to give Sunak and Tories the boot'
Kevin Maguire says record waiting lists in the NHS, sclerotic economic growth, stubbornly high inflation, crippled public services and a bad Brexit are just some of the reasons to give Tories the boot
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Kwasi Kwarteng pockets £27,000 for 30-minute speech to Swiss bankers
Just months after he and Liz Truss tanked the UK economy with their kamikaze mini-budget, Mr Kwarteng has started raking in cash from public speaking
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Keir Starmer blasts 'asleep at wheel' Tories as he vows to save steel industry
On a visit to British Steel site in Scunthorpe, the Labour leader said a good, secure steel industry is a 'massive prize' - and it would be 'unforgivable for this Government to simply sit it out'
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Kinnock's Brexit warning to Starmer over EU Single Market and economic pledge
The former Labour leader issued a warning to the current incumbent over meeting his economic vow while remaining outside the Single Market and Customs Union
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Tories 'murdered' manufacturing, says union leader amid fury at missing plan
MPs and unions today blasted the lack of an industrial strategy from the Government as fears grow about the impact on a series of firms and the wider economy
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Net migration figures hit record high - everything you need to know
The Office for National Statistics today revealed UK net migration for 2022 hit 606,000 - a new record - prompting calls for a shake-up of the system. Here, we try to explain what's going on
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Nothing in Britain works anymore, say overwhelming majority of Red Wall voters
Despairing voters think the UK is a country in decline according to a grim survey to mark the launch of left-leaning think tank, The New Britain Project