Sir Keir Starmer is coming under mounting pressure from within his own Cabinet to scrap the two-child benefit cap, despite ...

Yields on UK ten-year bonds, known as gilts, began the week at around 4.5 per cent and eased close to 4.4 per cent ahead of ...

The UK government is facing rising tensions between fiscal discipline and political pressure as markets react to a Labour ...

The first store to go was New Look's Wickford branch in southern Essex, which shut on January 24 after 15 years in business.

But as our recent Independent Ask Me Anything Q&A revealed, it’s the government now feeling the heat – politically bruised, ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is being urged to scrap the UK's "most hated tax" on pensions, which are due to come into effect in ...

Stocks fade as tariff deadline looms large - US President Donald Trump said he plans to start sending letters informing ...

Financial analysts are warning that a potential Chancellor Rachel Reeves tax raid on ISAs could "raise mortgage costs" in a ...

Economists have called on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to exercise fiscal discipline after a “rollercoaster” week in the bond ...

The reasons for Reeves’s distress remain shrouded in mystery: she looked strained but smiled gamely and admitted that she ...

Rachel Reeves is understood to be considering changes to Cash ISAs, prompting savers to open the product in large numbers ...