| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.06.2025 | Welfare U-turns show Starmer puts party ahead of country | The Conservatives are the only political party able to say they take the country’s £100bn debt bill and £65bn welfare bill seriously, says Jamila Robertson
We have heard the government assert time and again, that they are taking the difficu... |
| 04.06.2025 | Valla: A Legal Lifeline for Workers in the UK | In a world where justice often feels like a luxury, Valla emerges as a beacon of hope. This Edinburgh-based legal tech startup has recently secured £2 million in seed funding, a financial boost aimed at democratizing access to employment la... |
| 03.06.2025 | Edinburgh-based LawTech Valla Secures £2M Funding | Legal platform Valla has secured £2 million in seed funding to ‘democratise access to justice for millions across the UK.’
Leading the funding round was Ada Ventures, alongside Active Partners and Portfolio Ventures. Techstart Ventures, who... |
| 02.06.2025 | UK startup Valla raises £2M to increase access to employment law for millions | UK employment rights legaltech platform Valla has secured £2 million in seed funding to democratise access to justice for millions across the UK.
Founded by CEO Danae Shell, Valla tackles a staggering national challenge: the 12.4 million wo... |
| 29.04.2025 | Labour ministers urged to be clearer on small pension pot plans | The UK government needs to be more coherent and take extra care with pension schemes before it consolidates small pension pots, a leading industry group has warned.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) last week unveiled plans to ease... |
| 18.04.2025 | Staff at small businesses suffer falling wages | Staff at small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) saw their wages fall at the end of March, new analysis suggests, as firms wrestled to absorb the impact of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ national insurance tax hikes.
Data released by the Office ... |
| 12.04.2025 | Trump, tariffs and GDP: How do you forecast uncertainty? | The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), one of the UK’s central forecasters, prepared itself for President Trump’s tariff war – or at least partially.
At a presentation after Chancellor Reeves’ Spring Statement, OBR chair Richard Hughes... |
| 11.04.2025 | Layoffs creating bigger pool of jobseekers, recruiters say | More people were added to the large pool of jobseekers in March than at any point since the pandemic, according to recruiters, as high levels of redundancies are driving a “steeper rise” in staff availability.
Employers have come under grea... |
| 10.04.2025 | The Shifting Sands of UK Regulation and Employment Data | In the UK, the landscape of employment data and financial regulation is undergoing a seismic shift. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is grappling with challenges that threaten the integrity of its Labour Force Survey (LFS). Meanwhil... |
| 10.04.2025 | Stats body aims to publish key jobs data in late 2026 | The UK’s official statistics body has set a target of November 2024 for the release of its flagship Labour Force Survey (LFS), which monitors the UK jobs market.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has been dogged by several troubles i... |
| 30.03.2025 | Are Brits getting richer? It depends how you measure growth | Wobbly growth is the opposite of what Rachel Reeves would have hoped for in her first six months as Chancellor.
While the headline figure on Friday morning said the UK economy had only expanded by 0.1 per cent in the last quarter of 2024, e... |
| 27.03.2025 | Reeves ‘lost gamble’ and is likely to raise taxes, IFS claims | Chancellor Rachel Reeves is “likely” to raise taxes at this year’s Autumn Budget, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) director Paul Johnson has warned, as he claimed an extension to income tax thresholds would make for the “easiest political... |
| 25.03.2025 | Spring Statement 2025: What is it – and when will Rachel Reeves speak? | Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to update MPs on the state of the UK economy and make a range of economic policy announcements on Wednesday afternoon at the Spring Statement.
She is also set to give updates on the government’s plan to go “f... |
| 21.03.2025 | OBR growth forecast ‘will be halved’ | Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ hopes for growth are set to be shattered as another forecaster looks to downgrade expectations.
The Bank of England halved its growth forecasts from 1.5 per cent to 0.75 per cent in February while the OECD recently... |
| 20.03.2025 | Week in Business: Is Keir Starmer leading the UK into recession? | The Prime Minister, in his own words, in City AM, vowing to unleash the animal spirits of the private sector. It was intoxicating stuff, but does it stack up?
In his article Starmer heaps praise on “entrepreneurs who work day and night to b... |
| 19.03.2025 | SMEs in Limbo: The Investment Dilemma Amid Economic Uncertainty | Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are caught in a storm of uncertainty. The winds of change are blowing, but the direction is unclear. A recent survey reveals that nearly half of these firms are putting investment decisions on hold.... |
| 19.03.2025 | Output gains show firms are ‘protecting their margins’, Lloyds growth survey says | Growth in a number of sectors shows that firms “are taking steps to protect their margins”, according to a survey of 1,300 companies.
Rachel Reeves’s £20bn increase to national insurance contributions (NICs), which is set to come into effec... |
| 19.03.2025 | Reeves needs to make ‘long overdue’ changes to spending, CBI says | Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been urged to make “long overdue” changes to government spending as the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) demanded greater investment in innovation.
The Chancellor has previously said she is willing to “fi... |
| 18.03.2025 | PM’s growth rhetoric does not match reality | Stirring words from the Prime Minister in today’s City AM, with Keir Starmer vowing to unleash the “animal spirits” of the private sector. He knows his audience, I’ll give him that; City AM readers know better than anyone just how important... |
| 17.03.2025 | UK economy facing recession risk as Spring Statement looms | Britain’s fragile jobs market indicates that a recession is looming for the UK economy, a leading think tank has warned.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves defended the government’s economic record in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Monday, claimin... |
| 14.06.2024 | Sidekick Disrupts Wealth Management Landscape in the UK with £10 Million Funding Round | In a bold move to revolutionize the way private wealth is managed, London-based wealth management platform, Sidekick, has successfully secured a total of £10 million in funding. This significant investment will enable Sidekick to continue s... |
| 14.06.2024 | Sidekick secures £8.5M for wealth management platform | Sidekick, a wealth management platform for investors, has raised £4.5M in a Seed round and £4M via a debt facility.
The seed round was co-led by Pact VC and TheVentureCity and supported by MS&AD, Blackwood, and 1818, alongside previous ... |
| 13.06.2024 | London-based Sidekick secures €10 million to make private wealth less private | Sidekick, a wealth management platform for the modern investor that unlocks the financial advantages of the ultra-wealthy, has raised €5.3 million in a seed round and €4.7 million via a debt facility. The combined €10 million will see the s... |
| 04.05.2024 | Long-term sickness: How worsening mental health is holding back the economy | Economic inactivity, driven by long-term sickness, is fast becoming one of the most pressing challenges facing the UK economy.
2.7m people are out of work due to ill-health, up from 2.1m people pre-pandemic. The increase in long-term sickne... |
| 20.04.2024 | Will Rishi Sunak’s clampdown on ‘sick note culture’ tackle long-term sickness? | Yesterday’s papers were filled with headlines about Rishi Sunak’s mission to clampdown on “sick note culture” as he attempts to tackle the UK’s growing long-term sickness problem.
This is a serious issue. According to the latest figures fro... |
| 11.04.2024 | Why UK services exports have continued to grow post-Brexit | The resilience of exports from the UK’s service sector has been a success story despite the feared impact of Brexit.
Services exports reached a record £470bn in 2023, up seven per cent compared to the previous year adjusting for inflation.
... |
| 02.04.2024 | The UK economy beat all but one of its G7 peers on this metric last year | If there’s one thing that the Conservatives and Labour can agree on, it’s that the UK economy needs businesses to invest more.
This is hugely important for any economy because investment underpins technological progress, helping to improve ... |
| 25.03.2024 | UK homes have worst value for money in developed world: Study | LONDON: Britain's housing stock offers the poorest value for money among advanced nations, according to a study published on Monday (Mar 25) warning that the crisis-hit sector will loom large over this year's election.
The Resolution Founda... |
| 23.03.2024 | Rise in long-term sickness the longest since the 1990s, new research shows | The UK is suffering from the most sustained rise in long-term sickness since the 1990s, a trend which started even before the pandemic, new research shows.
From July 2019 to December 2023, the number of people inactive due to ill-health ros... |
| 12.03.2024 | Bank of England’s fears of a tight labour market will remain despite growing slack | Interest rate cuts are drawing ever nearer after new data this morning showed that slack continued to build in the labour market, but it is a painfully slow process.
Although almost every measure suggested a softer labour market than expect... |
| 07.03.2024 | Fact-checking Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget: Who are the real winners and losers? | The dust has settled on a pre-election Spring Budget which did not deliver any major surprises.
Jeremy Hunt cut National Insurance by 2p, handing back £10m to taxpayers in a repeat of the move he made in November’s Autumn Statement.
“Conser... |
| 01.11.2023 | UK household wealth has tanked and it's a sign of what could happen in the US | Properties for sale in Scotland. SNS Group Bill Murray/Getty Images
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UK's household wealth dropped due to rising interest rates, with regions like Scotland hit hardest.
The US faces a similar risk with many Americans' wealth tied ... |
| 30.06.2023 | Why Ireland’s headline inflation rate has fallen below the core rate | Prices look likely to stay high in Ireland and the UK. Economics expert Stephen McNena explains what that means for mortgages.
The European Central Bank (ECB) has raised its three key interest rates by 0.25% to their highest levels in more ... |
| 10.03.2023 | Over 50s aren’t staying out of work because they’re sick – it’s because they’re rich | Britain’s stagnant workforce, with 270,000 economically inactive over 50s, is keeping our productivity down. But to get them back in the labour market, we need to let them stay out of the office, writes Ben Cope. |
| 01.03.2023 | Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt must help families with soaring childcare bills to strengthen UK economy, CBI urges | Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt should help young families with the cost of childcare to tackle worker shortages that are holding back the UK economy, the country’s largest business lobby group has urged today.
British households have been spik... |
| 10.01.2023 | Sunak and Starmer offer little new year cheer on ailing UK growth path | This brand new weekly column, published every Tuesday, will drill down into the stories behind the numbers to reveal what makes the UK – and global – economy tick.
But, today, inspired by what resembled soon-to-broken new year’s resolutions... |
| 09.10.2022 | Many in the UK face a grim choice this winter between eating and heating as a cost-of-living crisis grips the nation | A graffiti sign to a food bank in Leeds, UK. Daniel Harvey Gonzalez/In Pictures via Getty Images
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As the country grapples with a soaring cost-of-living crisis, food-bank usage in the UK is rising.
People are struggling to feed the... |
| 26.09.2022 | Pound slides after Bank of England bats away emergency rate hike pressure | The Bank of England batted away the City’s bets on an emergency rate hike today to stem the pound’s losses against the US dollar. |
| 19.07.2022 | Дети вместо чая: не сбывается очередной прогноз футурологов | Вопреки оптимистичным рапортам социологов, свободное время трудящихся из стран с развитыми экономиками сокращается. Британский независимый аналитический центр Resolution Foundation вспомнил предсказание Джона Мейнарда Кейнса о том, что в 20... |
| 17.01.2022 | How could you invest to beat inflation? | With rising inflation, many are starting to see how investing their money can lead to better returns. |
| 12.07.2021 | UK wealth gap widens as richest households gain over $70,000 during Covid pandemic, report says | LONDON — The coronavirus pandemic has further widened the U.K.’s wealth gap, with the richest 10% of households seeing an average gain of £51,238 ($70,977) during the crisis, according to a new report.
The U.K.‘s poorest households, meanwhi... |
| 12.07.2021 | Coronavirus house price boom widens UK wealth gap | The average British household saw its wealth rise by 7,800 pounds ($10,800) due to asset price rises and, to a lesser extent, lower day-to-day spending, despite Britain suffering its sharpest economic downturn in more than 300 years in 2020... |
| 19.05.2021 | How Rishi Sunak’s Winter Economy Plan could help your business | Today, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak set out his Winter Economy Plan, a strategy that sets out how the government will help UK businesses to deal with the ongoing economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
A wide variety of measures were... |
| 13.01.2021 | IEO evaluation of the Bank of England's approach to quantitative easing | Foreword from the Chair of Court
Maintaining price stability is at the heart of what the Bank of England does. For the first decade of its existence, the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was able to achieve that stability through chan... |
| 06.01.2021 | World Economy in 2021: Here’s Who Will Win And Who Will Lose | Xi Jinping, the Chinese president. China’s economy is now showing strong growth. Shutterstock |
| 06.01.2021 | World Economy in 2021: Here’s Who Will Win And Who Will Lose | Xi Jinping, the Chinese president. China’s economy is now showing strong growth. Shutterstock
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The coronavirus has crippled the world economy. Global GDP suffered its sharpest drop since the end of the second world war in... |
| 30.12.2020 | New Tiers, New Fears For Retail And Hospitality | New Tiers, New Fears - as UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson announces further restrictions in place ... [+] from midnight on December 30. Millions more people will now live under Tier 4, in which non essential stores are closed, and restaura... |
| 29.09.2020 | House Prices To Rise Through The Recession As Covid-19 Means ‘Normal Rules Don’t Apply’ | A pink terrace house near Portobello Road in London's stylish Notting Hill. (photo by Sam Mellish / ... [+] In Pictures via Getty Images Images)In Pictures via Getty Images |
| 28.09.2020 | Nesta launches £2.8m Covid-19 response challenge to help people recover their jobs and finances | It’s no surprise that the coronavirus pandemic is having a brutal impact on the UK’s job market — but as fears of a second national lockdown grow and the government winds back the financial support it offers to businesses, it’s the most vul... |
| 31.08.2020 | Covid-19 briefing: heterogeneous impacts of the pandemic | Andrea Šiško
The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly spawned a literature analysing its impact on macroeconomic aggregates. But there's also been work that seeks to look at heterogeneity of impacts across industries, households and individuals. T... |
| 23.07.2020 | From lockdown to recovery - the economic effects of COVID-19 - speech by Jonathan Haskel | From lockdown to recovery - the economic effects of COVID-19
Speech given by
Professor Jonathan Haskel, External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee
Imperial Future Matters Online webinar
23 July 2020
My thanks to Nishat Anjum, Tom Bels... |
| 22.08.2019 | ‘A shameful legacy’: We’re setting up working-age Australians to be worse off than older generations | By Kate Griffiths, Grattan Institute and Danielle Wood, Grattan Institute
We’ve become used to each new generation of Australians enjoying a better standard of living than the one that came before it. Until now. Today’s young Australians ar... |
| 06.12.2018 | Il 40% dei Millennial inglesi non può comprare casa. E noi italiani non stiamo messi meglio | Viviamo sicuramente in un’epoca molto differente rispetto a quella dei nostri genitori, in cui è normale cambiare spesso lavoro e residenza e l’acquisto della prima casa non viene più visto come una priorità. Ma leggere il rapporto pubblica... |
| 21.06.2018 | Пенсия «миллениала»: как заработать на кофе? | Привет! Мне 23, я живу в Петербурге и работаю пиарщиком. Мой среднегодовой доход обеспечивает регулярные путешествия, гастрономические поиски и прочие радости.
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| 17.04.2018 | A depressing new report says 30% of UK millennials may never own a home | Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
For Sale boards stand outside homes in Didsbury on August 2, 2016 in Manchester, England.
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1 in 3 millennials may never own home, a report by the Resolution Foundation claims.
As millennials beg... |
| 28.03.2018 | These 5 charts show the state of pay and employment in Britain | Reuters/Peter Nicholls
Britain's labour market has been the subject of much head-scratching in recent years.
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The country is at close to full employment - the point at which everyone who wants a job has a job - and yet, wages h... |
| 09.11.2017 | Mother of Four Found Dead in Freezing Home After Her Welfare Was Cut Off | In the UK, reports have emerged that a mother of four died alone in a freezing home after her social security was stopped unfairly due to sickness.
38-year-old Elaine Morrall, from Runcorn in northwest England, was found wearing a coat and ... |
| 26.07.2017 | Electrical Revolution: UK Government Boosting Battery Tech | UK battery tech will be energised with a huge quarter-billion-pound boost in funding over the next four years, according to Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark. But the encouraging news doesn’t stop there – with an announcement by BMW ... |
| 15.10.2015 | Osborne’s “rhetoric on tax credits is just empty words” due to lack of analysis – Helen Goodman | |
| 08.06.2015 | Universal credit could make working less appealing for some, report claims | |
| - | Mortgage catastrophe brews in Britain as millions are pushed toward insolvency | The Bank of England’s surprise 50-basis-point hike will affect millions of homeowners as the interest rates on many mortgages in the U.K. are directly linked to the central bank’s base rate.
Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt on Friday met with m... |
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UK homeowners get temporary relief on mortgage payments without taking a hit to their credit | The news: UK consumers can temporarily change the terms of their mortgages to lower their payments, per BBC.
How it works: The deal results from a meeting between Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and UK lenders.
Mortgage consumers can discuss mortgag... |
| - | Gen Z more likely to ditch work for a ‘mental health’ day — here’s why that concerns job experts | Talk about ill-gotten gains.
As sick as it might sound, mental health issues among young people are at an all-time high.
Due to the rise of Gen Zers with “common mental disorders” (CMD), such as anxiety and depression — spurred by everyday ... |
| - | ‘Get Britain building again’: New UK finance chief restores housing targets | A former Bank of England economist, Rachel Reeves was appointed as Britain’s first female chancellor of the exchequer — equivalent to a finance minister — on Friday.
Reeves said she has instructed Treasury officials to provide an assessment... |
| - | London’s Breakroom breaks it down, rakes in $7 million in seed funding | Crowdsourced data platform for hourly and shift workers, Breakroom, has secured $7 million in a seed funding round. Through a peer review system, the startup aims to improve the life of workers by avoiding the bottom of the barrel and aimin... |
| - | How Rishi Sunak’s Winter Economy Plan could help your business | Today, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak set out his Winter Economy Plan, a strategy that sets out how the government will help UK businesses to deal with the ongoing economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
A wide variety of measures were... |
| - | Britain’s market-rocking tax cuts have been compared to ‘Reaganomics.’ But there are differences | There are echoes of the 1980s in the economic environment facing the U.K.’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, with inflation high and interest rates rising.
Truss is a staunch advocate for a number of core themes of Reaganomics, and has co-aut... |
